ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Differentness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Differentness is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state or quality of being different.

Meaning

(uncountable) The state or quality of being different.

More Meanings

  1. (countable) The result or product of being different.

Example Sentences

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.

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Related dictionary entries include difference, otherness, diversity, distinguishableness, quality, distinguishness.

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