Lexic.us

Definition of Separateness

1. Noun. The state of being several and distinct.

2. Noun. Political independence. "Seeking complete political separateness for Taiwan"

3. Noun. The quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known.

Definition of Separateness

1. Noun. The property of being separate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Separateness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Separateness

separable affixes separable verb separable verbs separableness separablenesses separably separata separate separate off separate out

separate peace separate peaces separate the wheat from the chaff separated separately separateness (current term) separatenesses separates separateth separatical

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Literary usage of Separateness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America by Eben Greenough Scott (1895)
"POLITICAL separateness OF THE BRITISH COLONIES. ... POLITICAL separateness is the most striking characteristic that greets the observer. ..."

2. Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America by Eben Greenough Scott (1895)
"POLITICAL separateness is the most striking characteristic that greets the observer. Though the colonies are contiguous, and, in New England, homogeneous, ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... but the court will look beyond the fictitious separateness and distinctness of the alleged causes of action, where the interests of justice so require. ..."

4. Idola Theatri: A Criticism of Oxford Thought and Thinkers from the by Henry Cecil Sturt (1906)
"Personality and its individual separateness is to him the veil of Maya, das radical Base, the source of evil and illusion. § 14. When he comes to specific ..."

5. The Republic of Republics: Or, American Federal Liberty by Bernard Janin Sage (1881)
"... at this late day, unwrite the written history of Massachusetts, which, in every line and word, supports the separateness of existence, freedom of will, ..."

6. The State by Woodrow Wilson (1898)
"separateness of the Colonial Governments. — It is very important, if a just view is to be formed of the processes by which the Union was constructed, ..."

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