specialness
5
4.2
- noun
- /ˈspɛʃəlnəs/
:
especialidad
- Her artistic abilities gave her work a specialness that set it apart from others in the gallery.
- Indicators of specialness
- Specialness derived
- reported specialness
And it kind of diminishes the specialness of it.
- And it kind of diminishes the specialness of it.
- It feels like it's bestowed with specialness.
- It's ego with a a desire for even more refined specialness.
- The covert narcissist has all the same feelings of entitlement, specialness.
- And the time that you have here it, what you have is your uniqueness, your specialness, and you don't need anything else.
- When a narcissistic person's specialness gets questioned, the vulnerable themes come to the surface.
- But I have this incredible special specialness and closeness with Sean.
- And we, we assert specialness to it because that's what we are.
- And so when we healed specialness, we are neither waiting to be rescued.
- The uniqueness, specialness of anyone else.
- And the insistence always on specialness is, is a kind of malignant, you know, situation.
- Like we should of course get rid of all these like stupid old fashioned ideas about sex having some like innate specialness.
- But the process, but I don't think the process of evolution does not negate the specialness of me as a conscious human being.
- It's a herculean mental effort to recognize red flags and not get pulled into the specialness swamp.
Examples
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Family members expressed this specialness by bestowing an abundance of attention, love, and caring.
Academic text (1998) -
The specialness was expressed as a continuous commitment to the advancement of their ability or talent.
Academic text (1998) -
We got to make our specialness work for us instead of against us.
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Students also value the specialness of their music class.
Academic text (1991) -
You said to give everyone time to understand our specialness.
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The result of that specialness can be observed in the Occupy movement.
Blog text (9) -
The findings relating specialness to the childhood family point to a need for further research in this area.
Academic text (1998) -
Yet there's a specialness here, and I feel myself coming alive in subtle ways.
Fiction book (1999) -
The music sounds emptier; it lacks the specialness that Six Fingers brought to the table.
Blog text (6) -
Even so, the specialness of the strong love these intellectuals had for the empire was expressed in their poems.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
54
4.4
A quality that makes a person or thing different
39
4.6
Qualities that make someone or something different from others
25
4.1
Being the only one of its kind
14
6.1
An unusual feature that makes someone or something different
6
8.0
Being seen as different from most people or from what is usual
4
6.0
A quality that makes someone or something stand out from others
4
7.7
Being very different from other people or things
3
4.0
A feature that makes someone or something different from others
2
3.8
A small extra detail that makes something feel nicer
2
4.1
A clear quality that makes a person or thing different
1
8.2
A quality of being a unique person with your own identity
1
3.9
A special style that makes someone or something stand out
1
3.7
A quality that makes a person or thing stand out
1
5.6
Being clearly different from others
1
7.7
The quality of being very unusual and making someone or something stand out
1
6.3
The fact that two things are not the same
A quality that makes a person or thing clearly different from all others
The quality that makes something different from all others
Being the only one of its kind
How easy it is to see that something is different from others
The quality of showing what something is like and making it easy to recognize
A quality of being very different or much better than normal
Being so special or excellent that no one can copy it
Antonyms
How Special
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Specialness comes from special, which is related to species, a word for 'kind' or 'type'. So specialness is the quality of being different, unique, or important, and that is why we use it to say someone or something stands out as one-of-a-kind.