Sin'gu-lār'i-ty, n.
n. [Fr. singularité, Pr. singularitat, Sp. singularidad, It. singolarità, singolarità, Lat. singularitas.]
Sense 1. The state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity.
Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling of the seeds yieldeth corn. Addison.
I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. Addison.
Sense 2. Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop]. Hooker.
Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. Pearson.
Sense 3. Celibacy. [Obs.] Bp. Taylor.