different between exclusion vs exclusive

English

Etymology

From Latin exclusi?, from excl?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks?klu???n/
• Hyphenation: ex?clu?sion
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

exclusion (countable and uncountable, plural exclusions)

1. The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. [from 17th c.]
2. (obsolete) The act of pushing or forcing something out. [17th-19th c.]
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.6:

     For the exclusion of animals is not merely passive like that of eggs, nor the total action of delivery to be imputed unto the mother, but the first attempt beginneth from the infant [...].

3. An item not covered by an insurance policy. [from 20th c.]

Antonyms

• inclusion

Derived terms

• exclusion chromatography
• exclusion zone
• Pauli exclusion principle

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin exclusio, from excludere.

Noun

exclusion f (plural exclusions)

1. exclusion

Derived terms

Further reading

• “exclusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• excluions

English

Etymology

From Latin excl?s?vus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?sklu.s?v/, /?k?sklu.z?v/
• Hyphenation: ex?clu?sive

Adjective

exclusive (comparative more exclusive, superlative most exclusive)

1. (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
2. (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.

   Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.

3. Exclusionary.
4. Whole, undivided, entire.

   The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.

5. (linguistics) Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.

   The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".

6. (of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship) Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.

   They decided to no longer be exclusive.

Antonyms

• inclusive
• non-exclusive

Derived terms

Related terms

• excludent (discrimination)

Translations

Noun

exclusive (plural exclusives)

1. Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.

   The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.

2. A member of a group who exclude others from their society.
3. (grammar) A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.

Translations

Further reading

• exclusive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exclusive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Adjective

exclusive

1. feminine singular of exclusif

Latin

Adjective

excl?s?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of excl?s?vus