excellence

1. 1.

   the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree

   Broaderquality

   Narroweradmirabilityimpressivenessrefinement
2. 2.

   an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels

   “a center of manufacturing excellence”

   “the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine”

   Synonymsexcellency

   Broaderfeature

Other forms of excellence

plural

excellences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about excellence

What does excellence mean?

excellence means "the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excellence?

excellence has 3 syllables: ex-cel-lence. The stress falls on "ex". In IPA it is /ˈɛksələns/.

What is another word for excellence?

Close synonyms include excellency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is excellence a common word?

excellence is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.