excellence

From Middle English excellence, from Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛksələns/

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excellence (usually uncountable, plural excellences)

1. The quality of being excellent; brilliance

   John Davies was awarded for excellence in the field of computer security.

2. Something in which one excels.
3. An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.

• superiority
• pre-eminence
• perfection
• worth
• goodness
• purity
• greatness

• par excellence

• “excellence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• excellence in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “excellence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃s/ ~ /ɛk.se.lɑ̃s/

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excellence f (plural excellences)

1. Excellence
2. Excellency (term of address)

• “excellence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.