Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being special.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a distinguishing trait
- n. the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance
Etymologies
- From special + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Only debit: once Wall-E and Eve leave earth and enter the space station, a bit of specialness is lost.”
“The story and characters are very entertaining, engrossing even, but the specialness is in how the book is crafted.”
“I’ve told you our special name because its specialness is exclusive to our use of it.”
“If you change the word hero to protagonist then I struggle to think of any novel that doesn't have the universe recognise the 'specialness' of the main character (s) regardless of genre, however I will give you that fantasy is probably the worst genre for over egging the pudding when it comes to heroes.”
“I think there is some circumstantial evidence to those questions, but the "specialness" might have to be accepted with some degree of faith. nothing more than a complex machine”
“As a subsidiary question, since I never grasped this concept of "specialness" in that context: how "special" must one be to become a TSA special agent?”
“One is the implicit and explicit reinforcement of bankers '"specialness," their elite status.”
“Research in Japan, where 60% of households own a genuine Louis Vuitton product, suggests consumers are prepared to pay 50 times as much for the real thing as for a fake, even if the products appear identical, because of the feeling of "specialness" they get when they purchase the real thing.”
“I have a feeling that he talked to Eric at some time after second season and during third and complained a bit about Dean not having any 'specialness' like Sam and that the big bad was after Sam and all Dean did was protect, etc.”
“The supreme possibility is to show something of the nature of God within the creation, and the 'specialness' of humanity turns out to lie in its role as protecting (through the exercise of that love and intelligence) life overall, not only of human life; it is a crucial part, but still only a part, of the interdependence of all living things.”
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