Word Meanings - SINGULARITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of

Additional info about word: SINGULARITY

1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. Addison. 2. Anything singular, rare, or curious. Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content In many singularities. Shak. 3. Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction. No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity . Hooker. Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. Bp. Pearson. 4. Celibacy. Jer. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SINGULARITY)

• Characteristic
• Distinction
• peculiarity
• diagnosis
• idiosyncrasy
• speciality
• individuality
• personality
• singularity

Related words: (words related to SINGULARITY)

• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• IDIOSYNCRASY
  A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity. The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• SINGULARITY
  1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of
• SPECIALITY
  See SPECIES (more info) 1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. Sir M. Hale.
• DIAGNOSIS
  The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at. 2. Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• PERSONALITY
  That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons. Burrill. (more info) 1. That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality. Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• INDIVIDUALITY
  1. The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot. They possess separate individualities. H. Spencer. 2. The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an
• PECULIARITY
  1. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift. 2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity. The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner. Macaulay. 3. Exclusive
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• TRIPERSONALITY
  The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
• IMPERSONALITY
  The quality of being impersonal; want or absence of personality.