Specialness vs Specialty - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between specialness and specialty

is that specialness is the state or quality of being special while specialty is that in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.

(-)

The state or quality of being special.

:He was vain about his specialness until he realized he was really very common.

* speciality

(specialties)

That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent.

They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.

* Charles Kingsley:

Men of boundless knowledge, like Humbold, must have had once their specialty , their pet subject.

(obsolete) particularity

* Shakespeare:

Specialty of rule hath been neglected.

A particular or peculiar case.

An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.

(legal) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.

(Bouvier)

* Shakespeare

Let specialties be therefore drawn between us.

* Joseph Chitty