noun circumlocution; detail.
2. circumstance ·noun an event; a fact; a particular incident.
3. circumstance ·vt to place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
4. circumstance ·noun condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
5. circumstance ·noun that which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.