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.
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