Separateness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Separateness is a noun meaning The property of being separate.
Meaning
The property of being separate.
Example Sentences
A prideful sense of separateness prevails toward what Mrs. Moskowitz called “frenetic” Manhattan and “the hipper parts of Brooklyn.”
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.
Professor Marty saw Americans retreating into “separatenesses” by choice, and he worried, with Reinhold Niebuhr, that “the chief source of man’s inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to the other man.”
Word Forms
- separatenesses
Synonyms for separateness
Depending on context, synonyms include distinctness, otherness, discreteness, severalty.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include discreteness, otherness, distinctness, severalty, separation, disengagement.
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