Exceptionality
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being exceptional. uncountable
"For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki."
- 2 A thing, condition, or other matter which is exceptional. countable
"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."
- 3 the condition of requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability countable, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki."
Etymology
From exceptional + -ity.
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