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differentness

differentness noun: the state or quality of being different.

Noun

differentness (countable and uncountable, plural differentnesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being different.
    • 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...1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 14
  2. (countable) The result or product of being different.

Forms of differentness

pluraldifferentnesses

Origin of differentness

From different + -ness.

Questions about differentness

What does differentness mean?
Differentness means the state or quality of being different.
What part of speech is differentness?
Differentness is a noun.
What is the plural of differentness?
The plural of differentness is differentnesses.

Words near differentness in the dictionary

  1. differentiatory
  2. differentley
  3. differently
  4. differently able
  5. differently abled
  6. differentness
  7. differentnesses
  8. differents
  9. differest
  10. differeth
  11. Differin

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