Noun

1. Special and highly exceptional damages awarded by a court where the circumstances of the tortious conduct have been particularly humiliating or malicious towards the plaintiff or victim.

Related terms

• damages
• actual damages
• incidental damages
• expectation damages
• punitive damages
• general damages
• liquidated damages
• direct damages
• consequential damages
• reliance damages
• hedonic damages
• special damages
• unliquidated damages