exceptionalism
English
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Etymology
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From exceptional + -ism.
Noun
[edit]exceptionalism (countable and uncountable, plural exceptionalisms)
- The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
- The belief that something (a nation, species etc.) is exceptional, superior, or does not conform to an established norm.
- 2020 April 9, Richard Horton, “Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 28 April 2021:
- If Covid-19 eventually imbues human beings with some humility, it’s possible that we will, after all, be receptive to the lessons of this lethal pandemic. Or perhaps we will sink back into our culture of complacent exceptionalism and await the next plague that will surely arrive.
- 2021 July 20, Neil Vigdor, quoting Jen Psaki, “Bezos thanks Amazon workers and customers for his vast wealth, prompting backlash.”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 July 2021:
- “This is a moment of American exceptionalism,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said when asked about the flight during a Tuesday news conference.
- 2024 September 30, Michael Doran, “EXCEPTIONALISM AND ASSIMILATIONISM IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW”, in Stanford Law School[3], volume 20, number 2, page 268[4], archived from the original on 24 February 2025:
- But in fact the antinomy of exceptionalism and assimilationism has been there all along, and otherwise puzzling decisions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries become readily understandable when seen as moments when assimilationism was ascendant.
- A philosophy of prevention or of intervention.
Translations
[edit]state of being exceptional
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belief that a particular nation does not conform to an established norm
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philosophy of prevention or of intervention
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- English terms suffixed with -ism
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (seize)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁éǵʰs
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