Dictionary

exemplarity en · NOUN

Etymology

From exemplary + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being exemplary.
   • Therefore, the century-old tradition of exemplarity, in which great works of art are to serve as standards for production (since they offer norms and maintain tradition), is ruptured in the eighteenth century. In the age of innovation,[…] 2008 December 11, Paul Fleming, Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
   • we can see here how the new value attached to the singular is justified, Blanckenburg's stated intentions notwithstanding, by means of exemplarity: the singular events of a novel are not of interest for what they are in themselves,[…] 2015 April 17, Michele Lowrie, Susanne Lüdemann, Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law, Routledge, →ISBN:
   • And where is exemplarity in relation to this? Which is more pri- mordial? That framework is an essentially hierarchical and competing one inherited from traditional metaphysical foundationalism aiming to reach the summit or bottom of[…] 2012 February 1, Irene E. Harvey, Labyrinths of Exemplarity: At the Limits of Deconstruction, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 172:
   • the exemplarity of Christ's life a. 1714, John Sharp, Our obligations to live as CHRIST lived:

Forms

Synonyms

exemplariness

Translations (4)

ky үлгүлүүлүк (The quality of being exemplary.) · ru примерность (The quality of being exemplary.) · kk үлгілілік (The quality of being exemplary.) · id keteladanan (The quality of being exemplary.)