exclusiveness.

Restriction of access, membership or inclusion to selected people or things.

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Words that belong together

• exclusiveness of membership
• social exclusiveness

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The exclusiveness of membership followed from the eligibility rule.

Social exclusiveness limited whose experience appeared in the archive.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.