Other forms: technicalities
A technicality is a small point of the rules that changes the outcome. Off on a technicality, a mere technicality, dismissed on a technicality.
The phrase is nearly always a complaint, since calling something a technicality says the rule mattered more than the truth. To lawyers the same point is simply the law, which is the whole disagreement.
1nountechnicalityA small point of the rules that changes the outcome.
“The case was thrown out on a technicality because the police had filled in the wrong form.”
technicality is a detail.
Proto-Indo-European
*tetḱ-
Ancient Greek
τεχνικός
English
technical
English, today
technicality
Built from
From technical + -ity. technical comes from technicus + -al, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός, from τέχνη (“skill”). For the late 20th-century origin of the noun sense (vehicle), see Wikipedia.
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