Dictionary

exceptionality en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Archaic 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 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.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) 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:
2. (countable) 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”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, London, vol. 97, pt. 2, p. 118:
3. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Forms

Antonyms

unexceptionality · unexceptionalness

Deriveds

unexceptionality

Synonyms

exceptionalness

Translations (12)

es excepcionalidad (quality of being exceptional) · ast esceicionalidá (quality of being exceptional) · gl excepcionalidade (quality of being exceptional) · ca excepcionalitat (quality of being exceptional) · it eccezionalità (quality of being exceptional) · pt excecionalidade (quality of being exceptional) · pt excepcionalidade (quality of being exceptional) · eo escepteco (quality of being exceptional) · fr exceptionnalité (quality of being exceptional) · de Außergewöhnlichkeit (quality of being exceptional) · ru исключи́тельность (quality of being exceptional) · nl uitzonderlijkheid (quality of being exceptional)