exceptionality

== English == === Etymology === From exceptional +‎ -ity. === Noun === exceptionality (countable and uncountable, plural exceptionalities) (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional. Synonym: exceptionalness Antonyms: unexceptionality, unexceptionalness (countable) A thing, condition, or other matter which is exceptional. (education) the condition of requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability 1998, National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, "Learning Disabilities: Preservice Preparation of General and Special Education Teachers," Learning Disability Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 185, Educators who are earning degrees as learning disability specialists should . . . understand the differences between learning disabilities and other exceptionalities. ==== Derived terms ==== unexceptionality ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.