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Bespoke vs Unique - What's the difference?

bespoke | unique |

As adjectives the difference between bespoke and unique

is that bespoke is individually or custom made while unique is being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.

As a verb bespoke

is past tense of bespeak.

As a noun unique is

a thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.

bespoke

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (bespeak)

    • Adjective

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  • Individually or custom made.
  • :* {{quote-web, date=2012-08-01
    • , year= , first= , last= , author=Ed Yong , authorlink= , title=Replacement Parts , site=The Scientist citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-12 , passage=… others are attempting the more ambitious feat of engineering bespoke human organs from scratch. }}
  • :* {{quote-web, date=2001-10
    • , year= , first= , last= , author=Robin Osborne , authorlink= , title=Why Did Athenian Pots Appeal to the Etruscans? , site=JSTOR citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-04-25 , passage=Were Athenian pots bespoke , bearing images requested by Etruscans? }}
  • Relating to someone who makes custom-made products, especially clothing items.

    • Usage notes

    Primarily used for tailoring, now also used more generally, as fancier term for (m), notably for software, as in a “bespoke solution”.

    Synonyms

    * See also: * custom * custom made * purpose built * specially designed * tailored

    References

    unique

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
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  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique . The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
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  • Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
  • Particular, characteristic.
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  • (proscribed) Of a rare quality, unusual.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique , the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.
    • , title=For Esmé—With Love and Squalor , author=J.D. Salinger , year=1950}}

    Usage notes

    The comparative and superlative forms more unique'' and ''most unique'', as well as the use of ''unique'' with modifiers as in ''fairly unique'' and ''very unique , are sometimes proscribed, with the reasoning that either something is unique or it is not.

    Synonyms

    (checksyns) * one of a kind * sui generis * singular

    Derived terms

    * uniqueness

    Related terms

    * unicity * one-of-a-kind * inimitable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.
  • * De Quincey
    • The phoenix, the unique of birds.

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