[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being exclusive; the desire or tendency to exclude others; exclusive character.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Exclusiveness, exclusive quality.
1827. Hare, Guesses, Ser. II. (1873), 340. Exclusiveness … arises from the monopolizing spirit of selfishness.
1845. R. Jebb, in Encycl. Metrop., II. 715/1. The exclusiveness of property.
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, II. vii. 136–7. There were others who preferred the exclusiveness of a separate table.
