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distinctness

/ˌdɪˈstɪŋkt.nəs/

distinctness noun: the property or degree of being distinct.

Noun

distinctness (usually uncountable, plural distinctnesses)

  1. (usually) The property or degree of being distinct.
    • In New York a Bohemian criminal is such a rarity that the case of two firebugs of several years ago is remembered with damaging distinctness.1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 137

distinctness meaning in Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

distinctness in Tamil

கலக்கம், அலாக்கு

distinctness in Marathi

distinctness, uniqueness
वेगळेपण vegḷepaṇ

distinctness in Bengali

distinctness, individuality, separateness
স্বাতন্ত্র্য swatantrô

Synonyms of distinctness

Forms of distinctness

pluraldistinctnesses

Origin of distinctness

From distinct + -ness.

Questions about distinctness

What does distinctness mean?
Distinctness means the property or degree of being distinct.
What is distinctness in Tamil?
Distinctness in Tamil is கலக்கம், அலாக்கு. See Distinctness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is distinctness?
Distinctness is a noun.
How do you pronounce distinctness?
Distinctness is pronounced /ˌdɪˈstɪŋkt.nəs/ (US).
What is the plural of distinctness?
The plural of distinctness is distinctnesses.

Words near distinctness in the dictionary

  1. distinctivenesses
  2. distinctives
  3. distinctivity
  4. distinctlier
  5. distinctly
  6. distinctness
  7. distinctnesses
  8. distinctor
  9. distinctors
  10. distinctual
  11. distinctually

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Adapted from Wiktionary: distinctness (page history and authors); distinctness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वेगळेपण (Marathi) (page history and authors); স্বাতন্ত্র্য (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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