exceptionality

noun

1. (uncountable)The quality of being exceptional.

   “For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki.”

2. (countable)A thing, condition, or other matter which is exceptional.

   “We are fain to ask what is to become of Shakespeare and a host of others, who, with equal originality of thought, have avoided those vagrant exceptionalities of humour.”

3. (countable, uncountable)the condition of requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability

   “1998, National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, "Learning Disabilities: Preservice Preparation of General and Special Education Teachers," Learning Disability Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 185, Educators who are earning degrees as learning disability specialists should . . . understand the differences between learning disabilities and other exceptionalities.”