exceptionalityn.
/ɛkˌsɛpʃəˈnalɪti/ Exceptional character or quality: plural things exceptional.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun]
particularity1570
unusualness1579
egregiousness1606
remarkableness1623
extraordinarinessa1665
unusuality1799
remarkability1838
exceptionality1854
exceptionalness1886
1854 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 16 Mar. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. i. 78 The Coroner..had a kind of formality and orderliness,..which..balances the exceptionalities with which he has to deal.
1872 Contemp. Rev. 20 383 The exceptionality of the boon..helped to deepen the dreariness.
1890 Harper's Mag. June 44/2 We remembered the exceptionality of his position.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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