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differentnesses

differentnesses is the plural of differentness.

Meaning of differentness

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.

Questions about differentnesses

What is differentnesses the plural of?
Differentnesses is the plural of differentness.

Words near differentnesses in the dictionary

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

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