Definitions
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- noun The state or quality of being
special .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a distinguishing trait
- noun the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance
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Examples
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Only debit: once Wall-E and Eve leave earth and enter the space station, a bit of specialness is lost.
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Only debit: once Wall-E and Eve leave earth and enter the space station, a bit of specialness is lost.
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The story and characters are very entertaining, engrossing even, but the specialness is in how the book is crafted.
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I’ve told you our special name because its specialness is exclusive to our use of it.
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If you change the word hero to protagonist then I struggle to think of any novel that doesn't have the universe recognise the 'specialness' of the main character (s) regardless of genre, however I will give you that fantasy is probably the worst genre for over egging the pudding when it comes to heroes.
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I think there is some circumstantial evidence to those questions, but the "specialness" might have to be accepted with some degree of faith. nothing more than a complex machine
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As a subsidiary question, since I never grasped this concept of "specialness" in that context: how "special" must one be to become a TSA special agent?
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One is the implicit and explicit reinforcement of bankers '"specialness," their elite status.
I Don't Know About You, But Working At Goldman Sachs Sounds Like A Harrowing, Existential Ordeal 2010
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One is the implicit and explicit reinforcement of bankers '"specialness," their elite status.
I Don't Know About You, But Working At Goldman Sachs Sounds Like A Harrowing, Existential Ordeal 2010
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Research in Japan, where 60% of households own a genuine Louis Vuitton product, suggests consumers are prepared to pay 50 times as much for the real thing as for a fake, even if the products appear identical, because of the feeling of "specialness" they get when they purchase the real thing.
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