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Answer for the clue "The quality of being not alike ", 12 letters:
separateness

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Word definitions for separateness in dictionaries

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; ...

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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being separate.

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.