ESPECIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does especially mean? 

• ESPECIALLY (adverb)
  The adverb ESPECIALLY has 2 senses:

1. to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common

2. in a special manner

  Familiarity information: ESPECIALLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESPECIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common

Synonyms:

especially; particularly; peculiarly; specially

Context example:

an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger

Pertainym:

especial (surpassing what is common or usual or expected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a special manner

Synonyms:

especially; specially

Context example:

a specially arranged dinner

Pertainym:

especial (surpassing what is common or usual or expected)

 Context examples 

It was, however, in the larger animals, and especially in the larger animals supposed to have been long extinct, that the interest of the public was naturally centered.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Very few letters were written in those hard times that were not touching, especially those which fathers sent home.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The succeeding words thrilled me strangely as he spoke them: especially as I felt, by the slight, indescribable alteration in sound, that in uttering them, his eye had turned on me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But if the neutron star spins especially fast, those magnetic fields can create a barrier, making it impossible for material to reach the star's surface.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The RNA are then used to create new proteins in the synapses, which are essential for keeping the synapses working properly, especially during memory formation and learning.

(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)

But mushrooms of the same species can vary in appearance, especially at different life stages and habitats, making them very difficult to identify.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

200 nanometres is especially significant because it is greater than the thickness of material needed to completely absorb ambient light, making these polymers more suitable as light harvesters for solar cells and photodetectors.

(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)

The virus was seen to infect those cells, especially neurons, and replicated in the tissue.

(Zika virus found to harm adults’ memory and motor system, Agência Brasil/EBC)

It would be hard to do without, especially in terms of security.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

They also have an increased risk of cancer, especially osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer).

(Adult progeria, NCI Dictionary)