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/spˌɛʃiˈælɪti/ Listen

noun

Speciality n. (pl. specialities)

A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.

(Law) See Specialty, 3.

The special or peculiar mark or characteristic of a person or thing; that for which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty. "On these two general heads all other specialities are depedent." "Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his speciality." "We 'll say, instead, the inconsequent creature man, - For that'a his speciality." "Think of this, sir,... remote from the impulses of passion, and apart from the specialities if I may use that strong remark of prejudice."

An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.

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Etymology of 'Speciality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Speciality" Quotes from Famous Books

... the daughter of the drunken organist who desecrated my father's tomb, though that concerns you not:—her own speciality, as you see, is that she is the flower ...

— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

... for individuals, they also wanted to do for nations. Humanity was to be divided into national workshops, having each its speciality. Russia, we were taught, was destined by nature to grow corn; England to spin cotton; Belgium to weave cloth; while Switzerland was to train nurses and governesses. Moreover, each separate city was to establish a specialty. Lyons was to weave silk, ...

— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin

... famous are brought to the doors of the railway carriage. Further on at Commercy, you are enticed to regale upon unrivalled cakes called "Madeleines de Commercy," and not a town, I believe, of this favoured district is without its speciality in the shape of delicate cates ...

— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... does not do away with the consideration of the best modes of studying whatever books are suitable for the end. One man has to read in Chemistry, another in Law, another in Divinity, and so on. For each and all of these, there is a profitable and an unprofitable mode of working, and the speciality of the matter ...

— Practical Essays • Alexander Bain

... of all men understood—namely, that every nation is fitted by its character, and the nature of its territories, for some particular employments or manufactures; and that it is the true interest of every other nation to encourage it in such speciality, and by no means to interfere with, but in all ways forward and protect, its efforts, ceasing all rivalship with it, so soon as it is strong enough to occupy its proper place. You see, therefore, that the ...

— Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne - Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work • John Ruskin

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