Meaning of snowflakeness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The essence or qualities of a snowflake.
   uncountable
2. The state or quality of believing oneself to be special or exceptional.
   derogatory, often, slang, uncountable

Examples

“Another position takes refuge in idiosyncacy—"every child is a unique individual!" True enough. So is very^([sic]) snowflake, yet we possess a theory of snowflakeness.”

“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.”

“There's an aspect to each maple leaf and snowflake that remains from leaf to leaf and from snowflake to snowflake. It retains each leaf's "maple-leafness" and each snowflake's "snowflakeness."”

“To help you discover your own beauty as a flower. Your own identity as a snowflake - your snowflakeness. You are the only 'you' you will ever know .”

“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.”

“[…] 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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