[f. prec. + -ITY.] Exceptional character or quality: pl. things exceptional.
1854. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1879), I. 79. The coroner … had a kind of formality and orderliness … which … balances the exceptionalities with which he had to deal.
1872. Contemp. Rev., XX. 383. The exceptionality of the boon … helped to deepen the dreariness.
1890. G. A. Hibbard, in Harper’s Mag., June, 44/2. We remembered the exceptionality of his situation.
