uniquityn.
/juːˈnɪkwᵻti/, /jᵿˈnɪkwᵻti/, U.S. /juˈnɪkwᵻdi/ The quality of being unique, uniqueness.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > fact of being unparalleled or unique
singlurec1400
oddness1581
unmatchableness1608
peerlessness1611
unmatchedness?1611
incomparability1632
incomparableness1633
inimitableness1660
unparalleledness1665
unparallelness1667
peculiarity1751
uniquity1789
uniqueness1802
unicity1859
phoenixity1886
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [noun] > condition of being
onliness1633
solitude1642
solitariety1678
oneness1715
uniquity1789
uniqueness1802
solitarity1803
solity1882
non-plural1941
1789 H. Walpole Let. 20 July in Corr. (1961) XXXI. 313 As rarities, a collector would give ten times more for them: and uniquity will make them valued more than the charming poetry.
1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 2nd Ser. 399 The originality, the uniquity, of the place.
1898 Atlantic Monthly 82 495/1 The lateness..of the bird's appearance, together with what a certain scholarly friend of mine would have called his ‘uniquity’.
1937 W. Soutar Diary 18 Aug. in Diaries of Dying Man (1991) viii. 90 Our own private world becomes more and more isolated by the uniquity of experience.
2007 Renaissance Q. 60 1407 Early modern anxieties about the uniquity of humanity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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