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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

Wiktionary

  1. adj. In a class of its own; one of a kind.
  2. adj. rarer By itself; of its own.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. Of his or its own kind.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. constituting a class of its own; unique.

Etymologies

  1. Borrowed from Latin. From suī (“of its own”) + generis, the genitive of genus (“kind”). Literally meaning “of its own kind”. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin suī generis : suī, of its own + generis, genitive of genus, kind. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. unique
  1. one of a kind
  1. per se

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  1. single

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  • charlesferdinand The fact that St. Thomas Aquinas considers angels to be sui generis is a consequence of imperfections in his ontology. Refute. Aug 4, 2009

  • bilby "William Randolph Hearst did not speak often of his father. He preferred to think of himself as sui generis and self-created, which in many ways he was."
    - David Nasaw, 'The Chief'. Jul 31, 2009

  • cxkang Dictionary.com:
    Latin.
    of his, her, its, or their own kind; unique. Jun 18, 2009

  • annajane 1 of a kind May 26, 2009

  • renbaudus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis sui generis Dec 5, 2008

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