uniqueness

{{Short description|State or condition wherein someone or something is unlike anything else in comparison}}

{{for|the usage in mathematics|Uniqueness quantification}}

Uniqueness is a state or condition wherein someone or something is unlike anything else in comparison, or is remarkable, or unusual.{{cite book |last1=Tayob |first1=Abdulkador |title=Maintaining Apartheid or Promoting Change? |date=2004 |page=85}} When used in relation to humans, it is often in relation to a person's personality, or some specific characteristics of it, signalling that it is unlike the personality traits that are prevalent in that individual's culture.{{cite book |last1=Strack |first1=Stephen |title=Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality: Second Edition |url=https://archive.org/details/differentiatingn00stra |url-access=limited |date=2006 |page=[https://archive.org/details/differentiatingn00stra/page/n93 66]}} When the term uniqueness is used in relation to an object, it is often within the realm of product, with the term being a factor used to publicize or market the product in order to make it stand out from other products within the same category.{{cite book |last1=Baumol |first1=William |title=Economics: Principles and Policy |url=https://archive.org/details/macroeconomicspr00baum_150 |url-access=limited |date=2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/macroeconomicspr00baum_150/page/n264 241]}}

The notion of American exceptionalism is premised on the uniqueness of the West, particularly its well-defined secularism.{{cite book |title=The Problem with Multiculturalism: The Uniqueness and Universality of Western Civilization |last=Headley |first= John M. |year=2012 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |isbn=9781412847155 |page=27 |url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=AUHLcYqExLUC |accessdate=3 May 2017}}