autonomous vs particular

autonomous

adj
  • Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject). 

  • Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently. 

  • Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules. 

particular

adj
  • Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject. 

  • Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing. 

  • Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious. 

  • Containing a part only; limited. 

  • Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions). 

  • Holding a particular estate. 

  • Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise. 

  • Specific; discrete; concrete. 

noun
  • A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point. 

  • A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.) 

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