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technicalia

noun /ˌtɛknɪˈkeɪli.ə/

  1. Technical details, especially ones that are tedious or of little interest to nonspecialists; technicalities.

    Copernicus himself made few observations but was steeped both in the technicalia of astronomical geometry and in the humanistic tradition.

  2. Technical language; jargon.

    […]though much of the Latin loan material consists of military or governmental technicalia, there exists, in addition, a considerable stratum which provides insight into the lexical equipment of the more popular levels of society.

Where it comes from

By surface analysis, technical + -ia (“a collection of things”). Evidently modelled after other nouns descended from substantivized Latin -ālis adjectives in the neuter plural: marginalia, paraphernalia, generalia, regalia, militaria, etc.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry technicalia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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