Spĕ'ci-ăl'i-ty, n.
(spĕsh'ĭ-ăl'ĭ-ty), n. [See infra.]
Sense 1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.
Sense 2. 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. See SPECIALTY.
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 alone. Bulwer.
We'll say, instead, the inconsequent creature man,— For that's his speciality. E. B. Browning.
Think of this, sir, . . . remote from the impulses of passion, and apart from the specialities—if I may use that strong remark—of prejudice. Dickens.
On these two general heads all other specialities are dependent. Hooker.
Sense 3. An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.