Differentness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state or quality of being different. uncountable
"Only recently […] have biographies incorporated an analysis of an individual's sexuality, not in some vulgar Freudian sense, but as helping to explain someone's internal sense of differentness or specialness — or, as I suspect in Lowenstein's case, aloneness — that becomes a springboard for a special life."
- 2 The result or product of being different. countable
Example
More examples"Only recently […] have biographies incorporated an analysis of an individual's sexuality, not in some vulgar Freudian sense, but as helping to explain someone's internal sense of differentness or specialness — or, as I suspect in Lowenstein's case, aloneness — that becomes a springboard for a special life."
Etymology
From different + -ness.
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