sui generis

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In a class of its own

   In a class of its own; one of a kind.

   • The transcendent case before us is absolutely sui generis.
   • The eminent Italian geologist, Stoppani, goes further than I had ventured to do, and treats the action of man as a new physical element altogether sui generis.
2. 2

   By itself

   By itself; of its own.

   • They came up with a program that the federal Minister of Agriculture and his provincial colleagues agreed was a good and appropriate approach to handling that particular problem. They did it sui generis.
   • Another possibility is that the council acted sui generis and expressed a one-off view on the facts with no precedential significance.
   • The refutation of Kleinliteratur conceptions enabled Kloppenborg to do away with the idea that Q was created sui generis, which, in turn, enabled him to compare Q with other ancient literature (Kirk 1998:35–36, 64).
3. 3

   Something of its own kind

   Something of its own kind; a thing apart.

   • It is word-generated knowledge or knowledge by testimony ( K. T. for short ) – a sui generis.
   • Prior to the 1990s a large segment of New Testament scholarship maintained that the Gospels represent a sui generis, that is, a genre unique to them. This sui generis was viewed as a type of mythology.

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