Anecdote and Detail

Anecdote

Anecdote noun - A brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally.

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Detail and anecdote are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Detail" instead a noun "Anecdote".

Nearby Words: anecdotal, anecdotic

Detail noun - A separate part in a list, account, or series.

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Anecdote and detail are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Anecdote" instead a noun "Detail".

Nearby Words: detailed, detailing

good	good anecdote	good detail
particular	particular anecdote	particular detail
specific	specific anecdote	specific detail
brief	brief anecdote	brief detail
Other adjectives: perfect, disgusting, small, entire, real, little, interesting, irrelevant, random, last, historical.

Gun Porn: In "Where The Hell's My Money," he describes a gun he pulls out in much more detail than the rest of the anecdote.

Source: Music / Mojo Nixon
Tullius Zappa tells a similar anecdote, adding an extra detail.

Source: Music / Uncle Meat
The novelisation of the regeneration story goes into more detail about this and adds an anecdote about a Time Lord who regenerated into something so horrible all the Time Lords could do was put it out of its misery.

Source: Body Horror / Live-Action TV

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