exemplarity means the quality of being exemplary. It carries an Arena rating of 1192, earned across 11 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, exemplarity ranks #5,604 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #9,411 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #10,284 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #12,052 of 17,131 for Scariest Words.
Why “exemplarity” is a great word
The quality of being an admirable pattern, worthy of imitation. Formed within English from the adjective 'exemplary' (from Latin 'exemplaris', pertaining to a pattern or model, from 'exemplum', meaning 'example') and the noun-forming suffix '-ity' (from Latin '-itas', denoting state or condition). Unlike 'exemplar', which is the concrete model itself, or 'ideality', which denotes perfection in idea alone, exemplarity is the living virtue that bridges the ideal and the real, demanding both admiration and enactment. It is the silent authority of a master artisan's steady hand, the warm, flour-dusted hands of a baker whose patience becomes your own, and the clean, stern line of a teacher's handwriting on a chalkboard—a quiet architecture of goodness that makes the moral world feel suddenly buildable.
Etymology
From exemplary + -ity.
noun
- The quality of being exemplary.e.g.“the exemplarity of Christ's life” — a. 1714, John Sharp, Our obligations to live as CHRIST lived:
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