technicality
technicalities
A technicality is a trivial or very small detail. You might consider your scuffed, unpolished shoes to be an unimportant technicality when you're dressing for a job interview.
You can use the noun technicality for any small point or detail, but it's most likely to come up in the context of a court trial or a conversation with an attorney. A legal technicality is a small but ultimately important detail of the law. For example, a robbery suspect might have his trial dismissed on a legal technicality if the arresting police officer neglected to show him a search warrant before searching his house.
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a detail that is considered insignificant
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synonyms:
trifle, triviality
Vocabulary lists containing technicality
In this fifth and final book of the series The Trials of Apollo, Lester must defeat Nero without causing massive collateral damage to Manhattan.
Mr. Lemoncello invites teams from across the U.S. to compete in a first-ever Library Olympics, where they must solve puzzles and decipher clues to become champions of literature and his library.
Axel, a bird-loving autistic boy from rural Pennsylvania, takes care of his family and a tiny eaglet after a tornado rips through his hometown.
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