Separateness

noun

noun ·4 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being separate. uncountable, usually

    "In “The Liberation,” a 30‐yearold^([sic]) college teacher breaks out of the psychic loneliness of a smothering family into the redeeming sense of her separateness; she had been kept from the person she really was."

  2. 2
    the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known wordnet
  3. 3
    political independence wordnet
  4. 4
    the state of being several and distinct wordnet

Synonyms

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discretenessothernessalienationalonenessaloofnessanarchy

Example

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"In “The Liberation,” a 30‐yearold^([sic]) college teacher breaks out of the psychic loneliness of a smothering family into the redeeming sense of her separateness; she had been kept from the person she really was."

Etymology

From separate + -ness.

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