sui generis

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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)

    –adjective
  1. Being the only example of its kind; unique: "sui generis works like Mary Chesnut's Civil War diary” (Linda Orr).

Century Dictionary (1 definition)

  1. Of his, her, its, or their own or peculiar kind; singular.

GNU Webster's 1913 (1 definition)

  1. Of his or its own kind.

WordNet (1 definition)

    –preposition
  1. Constituting a class of its own; unique.

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/ (so͞oˈīˌ jĕnˈər-ĭs, so͞oˈē)/
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American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin suī generis : suī, of its own + generis, genitive of genus, kind.

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