Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics, freedom from ambiguity in its outcome.
- noun The state or character of being unique.
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- noun The state or quality of being
unique orone-of-a-kind .
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- noun the quality of being one of a kind
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Examples
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The true essence of our uniqueness is a combination of uplifting and moving music with serious and emotional lyrics.
Jeff Rivera: Introducing JazzEktro! Jeff Rivera 2010
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The true essence of our uniqueness is a combination of uplifting and moving music with serious and emotional lyrics.
Jeff Rivera: Introducing JazzEktro! Jeff Rivera 2010
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The true essence of our uniqueness is a combination of uplifting and moving music with serious and emotional lyrics.
Jeff Rivera: Introducing JazzEktro! Jeff Rivera 2010
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Of all things Japanese only the language remained, and it is the language that has served to explain Japanese "uniqueness" since.
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We Baha'is often emphasize unity, but the call in our Faith to uniqueness is no less important.
Brent Poirier: Celebration of the Birth of the Bab: Dawn of the Age of the Maturity of Humanity Brent Poirier 2010
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Following the announcement, Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, told senior editor Simon Frantz why Herta Müller's uniqueness comes from the double experience of being part of a minority language while being under an oppressed society.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 - Prize Announcement 2009
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We know the desire for uniqueness is going up, and we know narcissism is going up.
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We Baha'is often emphasize unity, but the call in our Faith to uniqueness is no less important.
Brent Poirier: Celebration of the Birth of the Bab: Dawn of the Age of the Maturity of Humanity Brent Poirier 2010
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Their uniqueness is one of the aspects that makes Vancouver such an incredible place to live.
Calgary New Home To North America’s Largest Mosque « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Your uniqueness is what makes you special, so let it come out.
"dude, I'm almost crying." tragic_elegance 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word uniqueness
Sort of like singularity.
November 3, 2007
sionnach commented on the word uniqueness
Yes, but singularity has some fairly sinister connotations that uniqueness doesn't:
# Astrophysics: A point in space-time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume, and space and time to become infinitely distorted.
# Mathematics: A point at which the derivative does not exist for a given function but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists.
Another way of characterizing these behaviors might be to say that a singularity is the point where all hell breaks loose.
November 3, 2007