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EXCLUSIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does exclusiveness mean?
• EXCLUSIVENESS (noun)
The noun EXCLUSIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. tendency to associate with only a select group
Familiarity information: EXCLUSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tendency to associate with only a select group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
clannishness; cliquishness; exclusiveness
Hypernyms ("exclusiveness" is a kind of...):
snobbery; snobbishness; snobbism (the trait of condescending to those of lower social status)
Derivation:
exclusive (excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority)
Context examples
The beauty, fashion, and exclusiveness of Port Middlebay, flocked to do honour to one so deservedly esteemed, so highly talented, and so widely popular.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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