speciality

Noun

Meaning

A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.

See Specialty, 3.

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.

An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

forte specialty specialization peculiarity distinctiveness specialism strength specialisation long suit metier specialness strong point strong suit mark major
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Antonyms

gremlin piano fault deficiency defect flaw
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Hypernyms

career plus calling asset individualism individuality

Hyponyms

mannerism green thumb idiosyncrasy foible green fingers

Phrases with the word

magical speciality speciality store

Derivatives

specialities

Examples

Romance at short notice was her speciality. Saki

My real speciality is the mathematical analysis of Hilbert Space operators. But this was no time to come on like an ivory-tower idealist. Rudy Rucker

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. Benedict Cumberbatch

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too. Gary Lineker

This reminds one of the story of two eminent surgeons who were leaving the operation room, and one turned to the other and said, 'That was a close one, one inch either way and I would have been out of my speciality." Peter de Noronha

cooking is his forte Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

specialist workers specialistic specialistically speciality store specializable specialization