Exceptionality

Quick meaning: Exceptionality is a noun meaning (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.

Meaning

(uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A thing, condition, or other matter which is exceptional.
2. (education) the condition of requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability

Example Sentences

For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• exceptionalities

Synonyms for exceptionality

Depending on context, synonyms include exceptionalness.

Antonyms for exceptionality

Common opposites include unexceptionalness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exceptionalism, exceptionability, unexceptionalness, exceptionableness, unexampledness, unexceptionableness.

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