- excellence - the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree
--1 is a kind of quality
--1 has particulars:admirability, admirableness, wonderfulness; impressiveness, grandness, magnificence; refinement, civilization, civilisation Derived form: verb excel1 - excellence - something in which something or some one excels; "the use of herbs is one of the excellences of French cuisine"
--2 is a kind of feature, characteristic