UNIQUENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uniqueness mean? 

• UNIQUENESS (noun)
  The noun UNIQUENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being one of a kind

  Familiarity information: UNIQUENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIQUENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being one of a kind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

singularity; uniqueness

Context example:

that singularity distinguished him from all his companions

Hypernyms ("uniqueness" is a kind of...):

individualism; individuality; individuation (the quality of being individual)

Derivation:

unique (radically distinctive and without equal)

unique ((followed by 'to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality)

unique (the single one of its kind)

 Context examples 

It was just such uniqueness of points of view that startled Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A class that serves to allow many to many relationships between Designation and ClassSchemeClassSchemeItem, providing uniqueness to the CS/CSI pairing to an Designation.

(Designation Class Scheme Item, NCI Thesaurus)

A class that serves to allow many to many relationships between Definitions and ClassSchemeClassSchemeItem, providing uniqueness to the CS/CSI pairing to a definition.

(Definition Class Scheme Item, NCI Thesaurus)