exceptionality
The quality of being exceptional.
Noun
- The quality of being exceptional.
- For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki. - 2005 June 15, Robert Wilonsky, “The Wiz (Film Review)”, in Riverfront Times:
Synonyms: exceptionalness
Antonyms: unexceptionality unexceptionalness
- A thing, condition, or other matter which is exceptional.
- We are fain to ask what is to become of Shakespeare and a host of others, who, with equal originality of thought, have avoided those vagrant exceptionalities of humour. - 1827, “Some Speculations on Literary Pleasures”,...
- the condition of requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability
- 1998, National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, "Learning Disabilities: Preservice Preparation of General and Special Education Teachers," Learning Disability Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 185, Educators who...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin excipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exceptiōder. Old French excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor. Middle English exception English exception Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English exceptional Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English exceptionality From exceptional + -ity.