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Singularity vs Unusualness - What's the difference?

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Singularity is a related term of unusualness.


As nouns the difference between singularity and unusualness

is that singularity is the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual while unusualness is (uncountable) the state or condition of being unusual.

singularity

English

Noun

  • the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual
  • * Addison
    • I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn.
  • a point where all parallel lines meet
  • a point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value
  • (mathematics) the value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist
  • (physics) a point or region in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density; associated with black holes
  • A proposed point in the technological future at which artificial intelligences become capable of augmenting and improving themselves, leading to an explosive growth in intelligence.
  • (obsolete) Anything singular, rare, or curious.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content / In many singularities .
  • (obsolete) Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
  • * Hooker
    • No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop].
  • * Bishop Pearson
    • Catholicism must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
  • (obsolete) celibacy
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Derived terms

    * nonsingularity * naked singularity

    Related terms

    * single * singular

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    unusualness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or condition of being unusual.
  • * Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
    • The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
  • (countable) Something unusual; an aberration.

    • Synonyms

    * remarkableness