moongirl's Blog

I am struggling to understand shades of "uniqueness". Having read an ad for an "absolutely unique" property, I was reminded of previous struggles to compare "uniquity". Is "absolutely unique" more unique than "very unique", and does the use of either these quantifiers somehow indicate a more unique quality than the use simply of "unique"?
Ann Commens of Beecroft, in Letters

As a former colleague was fond of saying, "You can't qualify an absolute." Unique is an absolute (it either is, or it isn't), and putting any kind of descriptor before it is showing your ignorance. Yep.

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