A term with no superordinate genus that is also not common to inferiors would be an isolated term, neither universal nor particular, which is logically incoherent within Scholastic logic.
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particular(as used in philosophy of language and metaphysics)
A specific individual thing (like this exact pen or that specific moment), as opposed to a general category or abstract concept.
universal(Argument for the generality of Turing machines)
A computing system capable of simulating any other computing system of the same or lesser power; used here to describe Turing machines as the most general model of computation.