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The state of being several and distinct
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separateness
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Separate \Sep"a*rate\, p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ] Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected. Him that was separate from his brethren. --Gen. xlix. 26. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being separate.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being several and distinct [syn: discreteness , distinctness , severalty ] political independence; "seeking complete political separateness for Taiwan" the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced ...
Usage examples of separateness.
It follows that no sooner has separateness, individuality, begun, than dissolution, disintegration, also begins.
That seething, half-luminous cloud background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial, and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.