Speciality

Definition: Speciality

Speciality

Noun

1. An asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte".

2. A distinguishing trait.

3. The special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology".

Date "speciality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Note: Speciality \Spe`ci*al"i*ty\, noun; plural Specialities. [See Special, and Specialty.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Tips from 1870	Usage: Specialty, Speciality. These words are interchangeable, but the former is the better word. Source: Slips of Speech.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SPA	English	Speciality Polymers Antwerp	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Speciality

Synonyms: distinctiveness (n), forte (n), long suit (n), metier (n), peculiarity (n), specialisation (n), specialism (n), specialization (n), specialness (n), specialty (n), strength (n), strong point (n), strong suit (n). (additional references)

Antonym: weak point (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Speciality	Noun: {opp. } speciality, specialite; individuality, individuity; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy; (tendency); personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness; Adjective: singularity; (unconformity); reading, version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Speciality

English words defined with "speciality": Specialities. (references)

Specialty definitions using "speciality": doctor, osteopathic ♦ Hopkinsians ♦ osteopat, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN ♦ packaged petroleum product ♦ Soil solarization, Specialty, SUPERVISOR, SPECIALTY FOOD PRODUCTS ♦ WIG MAKER ♦ Zola-ise. (references)

Etymologies containing "speciality": Specialty. (references)

Domain	Title
References	Speciality Petrolubes Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Asian Speciality Drinks [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Germany Speciality Beer Report 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Peterson's Summer Fun: Traditional & Speciality Camps (Peterson's Summer Fun: Traditional & Specialty Camps, 1st Ed) (reference) Speciality and Minor Crops Handbook - 2nd Edition (reference) Speciality Occupational Outlook: Professions (reference) (more book examples)

Consumer Goods	Jesada SPK-042 2 Tool Steel Speciality Planer and Jointer Knives (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Rossow Midgets, Star Speciality Co. Credit: Library of Congress.		The Rossow Midgets, Star Speciality Co. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists lists doctors names along with their speciality and their educational background. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Speciality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Speciality" is used about 472 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	472	12,530

Country	Name
India	Speciality Petrolubes Limited
	(more examples...)

Expressions using "speciality": International Speciality Products ♦ speciality chemicals ♦ speciality fund ♦ speciality goods. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "speciality": speciality-oriented.
	Ending with "speciality": design-speciality.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "speciality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		vak (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section), afdeling (branch, compartment, department, detachment, pigeonhole, section). (various references)

Albanian		specialiteti (specialty), specialitet (province, specialty), veçori (characteristic, distinction, exclusiveness, feature, flair, peculiar feature, peculiarity, retreat, singularity, trait), veçanti (distinction, idiosyncrasy, particularity, peculiarity, singularity). (various references)

Arabic		‏ميزة (advantage, attribute, character, characteristic, excellence, feature, merit, particularity, peculiarity, property, quality, trait), ‏مجال تخصص, ‏مجال الإختصاص, ‏حقل إختصاص (bailiwick), ‏تخصيص الرهن, ‏خصوصية (confidentiality, exclusiveness, feature, particularity, privacy, singularity), ‏خاصية (particularity, quality). (various references)

Bulgarian		специалност (line, specialty), специален обект на внимание (specialty), специален обект на занимание (specialty), специалитет (food), характерна черта (characteristic, impress, lineament, note, particularity, physiognomy, point, quality, trait), особеност (distinction, feature, lineament, particularity, pattern, peculiarity, point, trick), отличителна черта (lineament, physiognomy, point, trait). (various references)

Chinese		�"长 (Specialities). (various references)

Czech		specialita (one off, specialty), zvláštnost (oddity, peculiarity, specialty, strangeness), záliba (fondness, hobby, indulgence, liking, predilection, preference, relish, specialty, strain, taste). (various references)

Danish		fag (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section), afdeling (branch, compartment, department, detachment, pigeonhole, section). (various references)

Dutch		vak (branch, compartment, department, handicraft, occupation, pigeonhole, section, square, trade), tak (bough, branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section), branche (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section), afdeling (branch, compartment, department, detachment, pigeonhole, section). (various references)

Esperanto		fako (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section). (various references)

Faeroese		yrki (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section), rúm (branch, chamber, compartment, department, pigeonhole, room, section), grein (bough, branch, compartment, department, paragraph, pigeonhole, section), deild (affiliate, affiliation, branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section). (various references)

Finnish		lokero (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, pigeon-hole, safe-deposit box, section). (various references)

French		spécialité (special). (various references)

Frisian		fek (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section), fak (branch, compartment, department, handicraft, occupation, pigeonhole, section, subject, trade). (various references)

German		spezialität (specialty), spezialgebiet (special subject), Fach (branch, case, compartment, department, field, mode, panel, pigeonhole, pocket, section, shelf, subject, trade), Abteilung (branch, compartment, department, departmental, detachment, division, office, ordnance survey, partition, pigeonhole, section, separation, unit). (various references)

Greek		ειδικότησ (adeptness, specialty), ειδικότητα (adeptness, specialty), ειδικό χαρακτηριστικό. (various references)

Hebrew		מיוח�"ות (singularity), מומחיות (competence, expertise, expertness, mastery, skill, specialization, specialty), יחו�" (distinction, privacy, setting aside, singularity, unification, union, uniqueness), תחום �"תמחות, �"תמחות (apprenticeship, articles of law, expertise, skilfulness, specialization). (various references)

Hungarian		sajátosság (flavor, flavour, nature, particularity, peculiarity, specialty, specificity), különlegesség (caviar, oddity, peculiarity), szakterület (specialty), speciális (particular, peculiar, special, specific). (various references)

Italian		specialit� (specialties, specialty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		本� � (characteristic, duty, original fief, proper function), 名物 (famous product, special product), 専門 (expert, subject of study). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほ�"りょう (characteristic, duty, original fief, proper function), せ�"も�" (expert, subject of study), めいぶつ (famous product, special product). (various references)

Korean		명물 (Specialities). (various references)

Malay		vak (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section). (various references)

Manx		sur-cheird. (various references)

Norwegian		avdeling (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section). (various references)

Papiamen		vak (branch, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecialityspay

Portuguese		especialidade (branch, compartment, expertise, pigeonhole, section, specialism, specialty). (various references)

Romanian		specialitate (major), produs principal, particularitate (habitude, mannerism, particular, particularity, peculiarity, point, singularity, specific feature), domeniu principal de activitate, caz special (special case), caracteristicã (characteristic, impress, mode, note, parameter, particularity, quiddity, specific feature). (various references)

Russian		специальность (branch, specialty), особая черта характера, подробность (circumstance, detail, particular). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		naročita osobina (specialty). (various references)

Spanish		especialidad (department, line, special field, specialism, specialty). (various references)

Swedish		specialitet (specials, specialty). (various references)

Thai		ความชำนาญพิเศษ. (various references)

Turkish		spesiyalite (special, specialty), uzmanlık (expertise, expertness), ihtisas (expert, expertise, specialization), ayrıcalık (benefit, cachet, charter, concession, concessionairy, eligibility, faculty, Favor, favour, franchise, immunity, incident, oracle, peculiar, prerogative, privilege, refusal, royalty), özgü şey (specialty), özellik (attribute, attribution, cachet, character, characteristic, feature, hall mark, hallmark, idiosyncrasy, particular, particularity, peculiarity, plate-mark, point, property, quality, quiddity, singularity, special feature, specialty, stamp, strain, trait), özel ilgi, özel ürün (specialty). (various references)

Ukrainian		спеціальність (specialty), спеціалізація (differentiation, specialism, specialization, specialty), фах (calling, feat, occupation, profession, specialty), особливість (aroma, characteristic, distinction, feature, flavour, individuality, particularity, peculiarity, specialty, tincture, trait). (various references)

Vietnamese		nét đặc biệt ng� nh chuyên môn, đặc trưng (characteristic, specificity, specificness, typical), đặc tính (characteristic, ethos, identity, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy). (various references)

Welsh		arbenigrwydd (distinction, prominence). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "speciality" (pronounced spe'shēa"lutē)
7	-sh ē a" l u t ē	confidentiality, impartiality, partiality.
6	-ē a" l u t ē	collegiality, congeniality, extraterritoriality, geniality, materiality, reality, triviality, unreality.
5	-a" l u t ē	abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, commonality, conditionality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, universality, venality, vitality.
4	-l u t ē	ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability.
3	-u t ē	absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-p-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: specialty.
	-2 letters: ciliates, clayiest, pyelitic, pyelitis, septical, silicate, tieclasp.
	-3 letters: acetyls, aplites, aplitic, aseptic, caplets, ciliate, cypsela, ectypal, elastic, elicits, episcia, italics, laciest, laicise, laities, latices, paisley, paliest, pelitic, placets, plaices, plastic, platies, plicate, special, spicate, spicily, talipes, tipsily, typical.
	-4 letters: acetyl, apices, aplite, aspect, atelic, atypic, caplet, castle, cities, claspt, cleats, clypei, easily.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-l-p-s-t-y"
	+2 letters: plebiscitary, typicalities.
	+3 letters: atypicalities, epistemically, physicalities, pietistically.
	+4 letters: antiseptically, compensability, euphuistically, hyperrealistic, isentropically, pertinaciously, polytheistical, processability, respectability, superficiality.
	+5 letters: decomposability, euphemistically, pantheistically, pessimistically, platinocyanides, prehistorically, sophisticatedly, superplasticity.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cake speciality	16	paper speciality	6
speciality food	14	beverage dispenser hot speciality supplier	6
speciality food store	12	act speciality	6
school speciality	11	line speciality	6
military occupational speciality	11	ciba speciality chemical	6
select speciality hospital	11	school speciality supply	5
speciality coffee	10	aircraft spruce and speciality	5
speciality pool product	10	speciality travel	5
laser printer speciality	10	company product speciality	5
speciality	9	speciality store	5
chemical growth innovation speciality strategy	9	air code force speciality	5
food item speciality	9	speciality merchandise corp	5
fair fine food speciality	9	speciality merchandise	5
food speciality wholesaler	9	lab speciality	4
britain food from speciality	8	drag speciality	4
advertising speciality	8	book speciality	4
speciality gift	7	american health speciality	4
speciality merchandise corporation	7	fiber optic speciality wire	4
speciality wraps.com	7	insurance pacific speciality	4
coffee market speciality statistics	6	speciality fat	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speciality

Definition: Speciality

Speciality

Noun

Specialty Definition: Speciality

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Speciality

Synonyms: Speciality

Synonyms within Context: Speciality

Speciality

Crosswords: Speciality

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Usage Frequency: Speciality

Usage in Company Names: Speciality

Speciality Petrolubes Limited

Expression: Speciality

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