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Separateness

Separate \Sep"a*rate\, p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ]

  1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.

    Him that was separate from his brethren.
    --Gen. xlix. 26.

  2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.

    For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere.
    --Heb. vii. 26.

  3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

    Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman independent of her husband.

    Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by her husband under deed of separation. [1913 Webster] -- Sep"a*rate*ly, adv. -- Sep"a*rate*ness, n.

Wiktionary
separateness

n. The property of being separate.

WordNet
separateness
  1. n. the state of being several and distinct [syn: discreteness, distinctness, severalty]

  2. political independence; "seeking complete political separateness for Taiwan"

  3. the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known [syn: otherness, distinctness]

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.