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separatenesses

separatenesses is the plural of separateness.

Meaning of separateness

Noun

separateness (usually uncountable, plural separatenesses)

  1. (usually) 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

Questions about separatenesses

What is separatenesses the plural of?
Separatenesses is the plural of separateness.

Words near separatenesses in the dictionary

  1. separatedness
  2. separatee
  3. separatees
  4. separately
  5. separateness
  6. separatenesses
  7. separates
  8. separates out
  9. separates the men from the boys
  10. separates the wheat from the chaff
  11. separatest

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