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The property every snowflake and every startup pitch deck both claim to have.
means The quality of being the only one of its kind, with nothing else quite like it.
from Traces back to Latin 'unicus' (one, sole), built from 'unus' meaning 'one.' English borrowed 'unique' from French in the 1600s, originally used strictly — something either was unique or wasn't, no shades of 'very unique' allowed. 'Uniqueness' followed as the noun form, though language users have spent the centuries since gleefully ignoring the absolutist memo.
- math definition
- existence plus the proof nothing else qualifies
- dna myth
- identical twins share genomes, not fingerprints
- fun fact
- no two shuffled card decks have ever matched
- irony
- everyone insists on it while copying everyone else