Unique vs Disorder - What's the difference?
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(not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
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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.
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A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled.
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Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
(medicine) A physical or psychical malfunction.
As nouns the difference between unique and disorder
is that unique is a thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled while disorder is absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.As an adjective unique
is (not comparable) being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.unique
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Adjective
(en adjective)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—’}}
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 * singularDerived terms
* uniquenessNoun
(en noun)- The phoenix, the unique of birds.
disorder
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Alternative forms
* disordre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- After playing the children left the room in disorder .
- The class was thrown into disorder when the teacher left the room
- The army tried to prevent disorder when claims the elections had been rigged grew stronger.
- Bulimia is an eating disorder .