What is another word for exclusiveness?

Pronunciation: [ɛksklˈuːsɪvnəs] (IPA)

Synonyms for the term "exclusiveness" include exclusivity, selectivity, eliteness, and rarity. These words carry the same connotation of being unique and limited in availability or access. "Exclusivity" refers to the state of being limited to a particular group or category, while "selectivity" implies the act of choosing only the finest or best things or people. "Eliteness" depicts the quality of being in the upper echelons of a social or economic hierarchy. "Rarity" describes the quality of being infrequent and hard to find. These synonyms are useful in both written and spoken English when emphasizing the concept of exclusiveness.

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Usage examples for Exclusiveness

exclusiveness puts on the airs of pride.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
So that the real root of exclusiveness is the dread of letting other people get near to us, for fear of what they might discover.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
Friendship requires a readiness to give and take, for better or for worse; and that exclusiveness which shrinks from the risks involved is simply a combination of selfishness and cowardice.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde

Famous quotes with Exclusiveness

  • They were shunned, and they had reacted to exclusion by exclusiveness.
    Robert Sheckley
  • Mrs. Krantz, having dined at Mark's Club, insists that it is exclusive. There would not have been much point to her dining there if she did not think that. A bigger snob than she might point out that the best reason for not dining at Mark’s Club is the chance of finding Mrs Krantz there. It takes only common sense, though, to tell you that on those terms exclusiveness in not just chimerical but plain tedious. You would keep better company eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in a launderette.
    Clive James
  • Always fatuity, vulgarity, as soon as human passion is touched. [...] Just as some poetry is of the eye (form, colour) and some of the ear, so Keats is of the palate. Not only has he constant reference to its pleasures, but the general sensation after reading him is one of . 'What's the harm?' Well, taste for some reason or the other can't carry one far into the world of beauty—that reason being perhaps that though you don't want comradership there you do want the possibility of comradership, and A cannot swallow B's mouthful by any possibility:....and this exclusiveness (to maunder on) also attaches to the physical side of sex though not the least to the spiritual.
    E. M. Forster

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