separateness
separateness noun: the property of being separate.
Noun
separateness (usually uncountable, plural separatenesses)
- The property of being separate.
- 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.1964 November 10, Jean Stafford, “Breaking Out Of Isolation”, in The New York Times
- A prideful sense of separateness prevails toward what Mrs. Moskowitz called “frenetic” Manhattan and “the hipper parts of Brooklyn.”2008 November 14, Gregory Beyer, “Isolation Is Pretty Splendid”, in The New York Times
separateness meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Punjabi
separateness in Tamil
- அலக்கு, வீறு, பிரத்தியேகம், வீற்றுவீற்று, துண்டு, அலாக்கு
separateness in Telugu
- separateness, separation
- వేఱు vēṟu
separateness in Kannada
- ಇಂಗಡ, ವಿಂಗಡ, ವಿಘಟ, ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕತೆ
separateness in Punjabi
- separateness, separation
- ਅਲਹਿਦਗੀ alahidgī
More languagesFewer languages
- separateness in Sanskrit
- पृथक्त्व pṛthaktva
Forms of separateness
| plural | separatenesses |
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Origin of separateness
From separate + -ness.
Questions about separateness
- What does separateness mean?
- Separateness means the property of being separate.
- What is separateness in Tamil?
- Separateness in Tamil is அலக்கு, வீறு, பிரத்தியேகம். See Separateness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is separateness?
- Separateness is a noun.
- What is the plural of separateness?
- The plural of separateness is separatenesses.
Words near separateness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: separateness (page history and authors); separateness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); వేఱు (Telugu) (page history and authors); separateness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅਲਹਿਦਗੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); पृथक्त्व (Sanskrit) (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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