exceptionality
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
the condition of requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability
Countable; Uncountable
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."
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.
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
unexceptionality
Synonyms
Antonyms
unexceptionality
unexceptionalness