exemplarity

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being exemplary.

   “the exemplarity of Christ's life”

   “Therefore, the century-old tradition of exemplarity, in which great works of art are to serve as standards for production (since they offer norms and maintain tradition), is ruptured in the eighteenth century. In the age of innovation,[…]”

   “And where is exemplarity in relation to this? Which is more pri- mordial? That framework is an essentially hierarchical and competing one inherited from traditional metaphysical foundationalism aiming to reach the summit or bottom of[…]”

   “we can see here how the new value attached to the singular is justified, Blanckenburg's stated intentions notwithstanding, by means of exemplarity: the singular events of a novel are not of interest for what they are in themselves,[…]”