Definitions
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- n. The state or quality of being unique or one-of-a-kind.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In mathematics, freedom from ambiguity in its outcome.
- n. The state or character of being unique.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. 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.
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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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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.
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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
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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
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Your uniqueness is what makes you special, so let it come out.
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Another uniqueness is in the subject headings and index terms are entirely in Church Latin -- the language of the book.
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The uniqueness is off, so we can see Minnesota play Cincinnati.
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To conceive of Canada without Quebec's vibrancy and uniqueness is to envisage a greatly diminished nation.
chronosome commented on the word uniqueness
Why not "uniquity"?
July 31, 2010
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
sonofgroucho commented on the word uniqueness
Sort of like singularity.
November 3, 2007