"snowflakeness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: snowflake + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|snowflake|ness}} snowflake + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} snowflakeness (uncountable)
  1. The essence or qualities of a snowflake. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-snowflakeness-en-noun-SDD8BmEC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 59 41
  2. (slang, often derogatory) The state or quality of believing oneself to be special or exceptional. Tags: derogatory, often, slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-snowflakeness-en-noun-TmNhYWWD

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          "ref": "1982, R. N. Malatesha, P. G. Aaron, Reading Disorders: Varieties and Treatments, page 153",
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          "ref": "1994, Steven R. Rosman, Spiritual Parenting: A Sourcebook for Parents and Teachers, unnumbered page",
          "text": "She is convinced that one particular snowflake that she names Harry—and why not Harry?—is unique, and yet he belongs to a larger family of snowflakes. Harry and his “relatives” share many characteristics of \"snowflakeness,” yet he is different from all the rest—a point that even her older brother Dennis does not dispute.",
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          "ref": "1996, Tim Smith, The Relaxed Parent: Helping Your Kids Do More As You Do Less, page 73",
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          "ref": "2011, Courtney E. Smith, Record Collecting for Girls: Unleashing Your Inner Music Nerd, One Album at a Time, page 72",
          "text": "We want to feel ownership over artists before anyone else even knows who they are, and we have a soft spot for atypical music with lyrics that relate to our life experiences (see: Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Björk). I, for one, will admit it: I am very concerned with my unique snowflake-ness.",
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          "ref": "2017, Cory Doctorow, Walkaway, page 178",
          "text": "[…] He'd call this humane, a 'low impact' way of 'bringing me around' to sanity, which, in his world, is the ability to bullshit yourself into believing you deserve to have more of everything that everyone else has less of, because of your special snowflakeness.\"",
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