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Exclusion vs Exclusive - What's the difference?

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Exclusive is a related term of exclusion.



As nouns the difference between exclusion and exclusive

is that exclusion is the act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part while exclusive is information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.

As an adjective exclusive is

excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.

exclusion

English

Noun

  • The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part.
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  • (obsolete) The act of pushing or forcing something out.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.6:
  • For the exclusion of animals is not merely passive like that of eggs, nor the total action of delivery to be imputed unto the mother, but the first attempt beginneth from the infant [...].
  • An item not covered by an insurance policy.
  • Antonyms

    * inclusion

    Derived terms

    * exclusion chromatography * exclusion zone * Pauli exclusion principle

    exclusive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
  • (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or reknown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
  • Exclusive''' clubs tend to serve ' exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
  • exclusionary
  • whole, undivided, entire
  • ''The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.

    Antonyms

    * inclusive * non-exclusive

    Derived terms

    * exclusively * exclusiveness * exclusive or * exclusive right * exclusivity * mutually exclusive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
  • ''The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially distastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature
  • (grammar) A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only'', ''solely'', or ''simply .