The word "exceptionalism" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a policy or a belief that one's country or group is special or better than others, or to describe something that is unusually good. For example, "The exceptionalism of the country's athletes has been evident in their many Olympic medal wins."
When devoManc broke cover in November, other cities were not pleased, so much so that Bernstein worried that Manchester's exceptionalism might undermine the deal.
So we end up as a country of separate religious schools (what did our children do to deserve that in an interconnected world?), exceptionalism in law and even human rights.
"In every other country in human history, your future was decided by what your parents did before you," Rubio told Hannity when asked whether he believed in American exceptionalism.
And for much longer than that, the substance of Scotland's exceptionalism had not been what mattered in political terms, rather a sense of being different and therefore a desire to do things – often the same things – for itself.
The most typical of his goals have expressed less the exceptionalism of his talent than its utter normality; Cahill has stood out by not standing out at all.
Yet the president struck a surprisingly defiant tone, insisting that his administration had acted on the best intelligence available at the time and claiming that his decision to declassify the operation and initiate a review was a sign of American exceptionalism.
More militarism and exceptionalism are the last things America needs if it is ever to regain prestige and admiration.You also seem to think that foreign bases are not examples of militarism.
Mr Obama's politically compulsory declarations of America's exceptionalism have always struck me as rote, a little less than heartfelt, even a bit grudging.
Mr Kerry is a man who believes that America is exceptional not because we say we are, but because we do exceptional things, the president said.Recall that Mr Obama has just emerged from an election in which his Republican opponents accused him of being embarrassed by the idea of American exceptionalism, and having spent his first four years in office on a "global apology tour".
Violent mistrust between black citizens and white police officers is more a northern problem than a southern one.Religion is a better explanation of southern exceptionalism.
