technicality

Plural: technicalities

Noun

• a detail that is considered insignificant
• The quality or state of being technical.
• That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.
• A minor detail, rule, law, etc., seemingly insignificant to a non-specialist but which has significant consequences in larger matters.

Examples

• legal technicality
• the technicalities of the sect

Synonyms

trifle, triviality, technicalness