SPECIALNESS Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

specialness

noun

Definition of specialness

as in greatness

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Recent Examples of specialness And to do two weddings in a finale would've deprived the specialness from both of them. — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026 Its accessibility only amplifies its specialness. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026 The real loss is the specialness. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026 Stanton’s disdain for immigrants led her into emergent realms of pseudoscience that would transform into eugenics; her rhetoric about women strayed from the principle of gender equality into essentialist ideas about women’s feminine specialness. — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026 At least the quality of cabin materials—the complex leather stitching, the suppleness of the hide, the tasteful integration of carbon-fiber trim—lends the cabin a feeling of specialness that mitigates some of the tech frustrations. — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2026 And adults reinforced the child's sense of specialness by holding him to a higher standard. — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026 Watson made his biggest scientific discovery as a young man, only 25 years old, and his sense of his own abilities, his own specialness, seemed never to mature beyond a young man’s bravado. — Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025 The hair that would otherwise sprout from his postpubescent body has been replaced by the residues of fire—that Promethean symbol of dawning human specialness. — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025

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Noun

The Ballon d’Or, organised by the magazine France Football, has increasingly become a barometer of greatness.

— Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Not that the Rams believe any of this potential greatness has been guaranteed.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of greatness

Noun

The mania for ancient Greece and Rome is in ample display among the current descendants of the Nazis, the alt-right more than happy to cosplay their fantasy of classical masculinity and racial exceptionality.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
And just as Shakespeare relentlessly intensified Lear’s individuality, so did Jobs make each gadget more itself, eschewing generic compromise to magnify exceptionality.

— Big Think, Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025

Definition of exceptionality

Noun

And at least a few folks In the peanut gallery recognized her fabulousness.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Making the celebration even sweeter, this year’s festival falls on Father’s Day, so the fruit-forward foodie fete has added some pater-riffic fabulousness.

— Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2026

Definition of fabulousness

Noun

Cristobal still preaches relentless effort, a pursuit of excellence and, of course, the team focusing on going 1-0 every week.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
Under the leadership of Founder Girijesh Kumar and Co-Founder & CEO Marc Rothmeyer, Mobcoder AI combines engineering excellence with commercial strategy and operational discipline across every engagement.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of excellence

Noun

The aircraft’s multi-role design also gives commanders greater flexibility in employing it for different missions rather than limiting it to the traditional air-superiority role associated with earlier Eagle variants.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
Decide for yourself whether that’s a bold indicator of English football’s superiority over the rest of the world, or a revolting symbol of the bloated and vulgar behemoth that the game has become.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of superiority

Noun

His relaxed point of view is a far cry from the grandness or the grittiness that marked the work of Western painters past like Frederic Remington or Albert Bierstadt.

— Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
But the grandness of these dreams butts up against the precarity that their dreamers are facing.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026

Definition of grandness

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