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English
Etymology
From exceptional + -ity.
Noun
exceptionality (countable and uncountable, plural exceptionalities)
- (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
- Synonym: exceptionalness
2005 June 15, Robert Wilonsky, “The Wiz (Film Review)”, in Riverfront Times:For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki.
- (countable) A thing, condition, or other matter which is exceptional.
1827, “Some Speculations on Literary Pleasures”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, London, vol. 97, pt. 2, p. 118: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.
- (education) 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 are earning degrees as learning disability specialists should . . . understand the differences between learning disabilities and other exceptionalities.
Derived terms
Translations
quality of being exceptional
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.