'Singularity' definitions:
Definition of 'singularity'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being one of a kind; "that singularity distinguished him from all his companions" [syn: singularity, uniqueness]
noun
Strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual
Definition of 'Singularity'
From: GCIDE
- Singularity \Sin`gu*lar"i*ty\ (s[i^][ng]`g[-u]*l[a^]r"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. Singularities (s[i^][ng]`g[-u]*l[a^]r"[i^]*t[i^]z). [L. singularitas: cf. F. singularit['e].]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. --Sir. W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Anything singular, rare, or curious. [1913 Webster]
- Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content In many singularities. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction. [1913 Webster]
- No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop]. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. --Bp. Pearson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Celibacy. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'singularity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- absurdity,
- anomaly,
- anticness,
- aroma,
- attribute,
- badge,
- bizarreness,
- bizarrerie,
- black hole,
- brand,
- cachet,
- cast,
- character,
- characteristic,
- combination,
- conceit,
- configuration,
- crackpotism,
- crank,
- crankiness,
- crankism,
- crotchet,
- crotchetiness,
- curiousness,
- cut,
- deformity,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- differentia,
- differential,
- differentiation,
- differentness,
- distinctive feature,
- distinctiveness,
- divergence,
- dottiness,
- earmark,
- eccentricity,
- egohood,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- fantasticality,
- feature,
- figure,
- flavor,
- freakiness,
- freakishness,
- fusion,
- grotesqueness,
- grotesquerie,
- gust,
- hallmark,
- human factor,
- identity,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- impress,
- impression,
- index,
- individualism,
- individuality,
- indivisibility,
- intactness,
- integrality,
- integration,
- integrity,
- inviolability,
- irreducibility,
- irregularity,
- keynote,
- kink,
- lineaments,
- maggot,
- malformation,
- mannerism,
- mark,
- marking,
- mold,
- monstrosity,
- monstrousness,
- nature,
- nominalism,
- nonconformity,
- oddity,
- oddness,
- odor,
- oneness,
- organic unity,
- outlandishness,
- particularism,
- particularity,
- peculiarity,
- personal equation,
- personal identity,
- personality,
- personship,
- property,
- purity,
- quaintness,
- quality,
- queerness,
- quip,
- quirk,
- quirkiness,
- savor,
- seal,
- self-identity,
- selfhood,
- selfness,
- selfsameness,
- shape,
- simplicity,
- singleness,
- smack,
- solidarity,
- solidification,
- solidity,
- soul,
- specialty,
- stamp,
- strangeness,
- taint,
- tang,
- taste,
- teratism,
- token,
- trait,
- trick,
- twist,
- uncommonness,
- unconventionality,
- undividedness,
- unification,
- uniformity,
- uniqueness,
- unity,
- univocity,
- unnaturalness,
- weirdness,
- whim,
- whimsicality,
- whimsy,
- wholeness