specialness

noun

Definition of specialnessnext
as in greatness

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  1. greatness
  2. excellence
  3. superiority
  4. importance
  5. perfection
  6. supremacy
  7. preeminence
  8. excellency
Noun
  • Holding aloft every trophy on offer with the Reds—apart from the Europa League—the relentless number 11 has only occasionally gone off the boil, reliability that has ultimately resulted in greatness.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • His greatness felt particularly significant on a night when the Ravens faced their two top running backs from the pre-Henry era.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of greatness
Noun
  • The longtime broadcaster chatted with the Saturday Night Live alum Thursday morning on the sidelines of the annual New York City event, where the pair previewed NBC's upcoming 50th anniversary special celebrating five decades of SNL excellence.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2024
  • By continuously engaging with these dimensions and remaining open to learning and adaptation, leaders can guide their organizations toward a future of sustained growth and excellence.
    Jim Becker, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of excellence
Noun
  • The wholesale engulfing of the myth of white superiority is what makes that kind of violence.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The film explores how the extremists combine violence, threatened or actual, with sophisticated social media campaigns to bring their pseudoscientific claims of racial superiority to the mainstream.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of superiority
Noun
  • However, their importance declined measurably in the last half of the 20th century.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • And FirstEnergy encouraged Householder to speak with Trump about the importance of nuclear energy.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of importance
Noun
  • Second, investment success is less about perfection and more about participation.
    Wes Moss, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • There is a word for this in Japanese, shibumi, that denotes an aesthetic of austere simplicity and effortless perfection, of doing the most with the least.
    Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of perfection
Noun
  • Meta’s Llama was touted as the top open model, where OpenAI’s closed models are obviously close to the curve of model supremacy.
    John Werner, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • In the fight for smartphone supremacy, AI is becoming the new battleground.
    Paul Monckton, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of supremacy
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Americans today are less convinced that their tax dollars should be spent on bolstering their country’s preeminence worldwide.
    Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Once that became a money machine, his ownership preeminence in the York family was cast in stone.
    Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
Definition of preeminence
Noun
  • Education was considered an individual pursuit marked by moral excellency and only the students who did the best in school would have proceeded to higher education.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Zurich said the Game Changer Award pays tribute to excellency in the film business with a focus on leaders that not only cherish change and forward-thinking approaches in the business, but also stand for the DNA of what cinema has represented since its invention.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
Definition of excellency
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