n. An irrelevant detail that disturbs one's thought process.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being circumstantial; minuteness; fullness of detail: as, the circumstantiality of a story or description.
n. A circumstance; a particular detail.
Word Usage
"The almost dreamlike film that seems to cover his paintings, softening and refining reality, is swept away in the drawings on view, which have the immediacy, the circumstantiality, of life itself."