Exceptionality vs Individuality - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
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(countable) A thing, condition, or other matter which is exceptional.
* 1827 , "Some Speculations on Literary Pleasures," The Gentleman's Magazine , London, vol. 97, pt. 2, p. 118,
* 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,
(uncountable) The characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.
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, chapter=6 (countable) A person.
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In uncountable terms the difference between exceptionality and individuality
is that exceptionality is the quality of being exceptional while individuality is the characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.In countable terms the difference between exceptionality and individuality
is that exceptionality is a thing, condition, or other matter which is exceptional while individuality is A person.exceptionality
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Noun
(exceptionalities)The Wiz (Film Review)," Riverfront Times , 15 June,
- 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.
- Educators who are earning degrees as learning disability specialists should . . . understand the differences between learning disabilities and other exceptionalities .
References
* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.individuality
English
Noun
citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}