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uniqueness

Word definitions for uniqueness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being one of a kind; "that singularity distinguished him from all his companions" [syn: singularity ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Uniqueness is a state or condition wherein someone or something is unlike anything else in comparison. When used in relation to humans , it is often in relation to a person's personality , or some specific characteristics of it, signalling that it is unlike ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unique \U*nique"\, a. [F. unique; cf. It. unico; from L. unicus, from unus one. See One .] Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique"ly , adv. -- U*nique"ness , n.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being unique or one-of-a-kind.

Usage examples of uniqueness.

Until that time comes, if it ever does, it seems to me premature to put faith in the Anthropic Principle as an argument for human centrality or uniqueness.

Deceived by the uniqueness of the name, aestheticians have tried to make us believe that there is a single painter-psychology, a single function of painting, a single standard of criticism.

This much, however, is unmistakable, that Marcion succeeded in placing the greatness and uniqueness of redemption through Christ in the clearest light and in beholding this redemption in the person of Christ, but chiefly in his death upon the cross.

Uniqueness of input values for output values is exactly what the concept of kernel is about.

For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this--and rightly ascribed it--to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.

But the modern view, with its deepening insistence upon individuality and upon the significance of its uniqueness, steadily intensifies the value of freedom, until at last we begin to see liberty as the very substance of life, that indeed it is life, and that only the dead things, the choiceless things, live in absolute obedience to law.

I am a huge fan of the apostle Peter and can relate to him far more readily than John, but the inspired words the Holy Spirit later entrusted to the Son of Thunder suggest a profound uniqueness.

This ingenuousness is doubtless dependent upon several factors, such as the primitiveness of the world, the isolation and uniqueness of the cities, the disparateness of cultures and the tenuousness of communication.

Until that time comes, if it ever does, it seems to me premature to put faith in the Anthropic Principle as an argument for human centrality or uniqueness.

The first thing he saw upon emerging from the bathroom was a framed photo of Yukio Mishima, the samurai-poet who had committed hara-kiri in 1970 in order to dramatize to an uncomprehending nation a death of uniqueness: the dissolution of traditional Japanese values in the noisome cauldron of the ethos of the West.

Nietzsche mourns the loss of `man's belief in his dignity, his uniqueness, his irreplaceability in the scheme of existence'.

Nietzsche mourns the loss of 'man's belief in his dignity, his uniqueness, his irreplaceability in the scheme of existence'.

The benefit of a uniform was that one need not struggle to be unique-how many uniquenesses could the Unnamed God or nature create?

Only nature had the originality to create all the little irregularities and uniquenesses that brought it so alive.

Each had more uniquenesses than were ever possible to a protoplasmic creature.