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exoticness

noun

as in uniqueness

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  1. uniqueness
  2. distinctiveness
  3. individuality
  4. distinctness
  5. separateness
  6. variation
Noun
  • Those victories underlined Madrid’s uniqueness in top-level football, especially under long-serving president Perez.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • And that’s largely because of how well the game leans into the uniqueness of the Star Wars universe, using its source material in nearly every narrative beat and gameplay mechanic.
    — Hayes Madsen, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of uniqueness
Noun
  • The key lesson for personal branding is to embrace distinctiveness, substance, and a unique voice, rather than conforming to generic professionalism.
    — William Arruda, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • America is the ultimate answer to the pogrom, and to the emancipation Europe offered on the condition of relinquishing Jewish ethnic and cultural distinctiveness.
    — Rory Lancman, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of distinctiveness
Noun
  • The strongest hospitality organizations will be those capable of combining the individuality and privacy of exceptional homes with the discipline, responsiveness and accountability expected from the best hotels.
    — Jeffery Khoury, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The six-room exhibition — featuring Makó’s signature approach within the world of Hungarian folklore and childhood memories — transforms fashion imagery and explores the world of identity, individuality and self-expression.
    — Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of individuality
Noun
  • How can the sense of an absolute union of all matter be reconciled with the endless multiplicity and distinctness of it?
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • However, a few hours with Air Riders reveals the nuance and depth of its gameplay, the distinctness of this flavor of racing game and its sensory, chaotic, and strategic appeal.
    — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2025
Definition of distinctness
Noun
  • These immigrants, who first settled the backcountry of Pennsylvania before pushing farther to the western and southern frontier, brought with them a cultural and linguistic separateness that had an immense impact on the speech of the American heartland.
    — Valerie Fridland, Big Think, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Definition of separateness
Noun
  • With real-world variation, the failure rate that had been a footnote turned into daily operational work.
    — Shivansh Inamdar, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Our paper argues that end-to-end AI systems could compress this variation by steering exploration toward what existing data suggest is likely to succeed.
    — Julio Ottino, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of variation
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