selectiveness

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The selectiveness also lends status: the attuned eye immediately recognizes a Farrow & Ball red such as Incarnadine or Blazer.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

Still, despite his selectiveness, le Carré has always been a peerless storyteller — and central to both espionage and novel writing is the ability to make up stuff and get others to buy it.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2016

The degree of selectiveness that immigration law imposes has varied highly from group to group.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2014

But food-truck operators pointed to a host of supermarket, restaurant and other trucks not receiving the same scrutiny — including the support vehicles that tow street carts — in criticizing the bill’s selectiveness.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2010

He may exercise the like unscrutable selectiveness upon the seed of Israel to-day.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles