separateness
2
6.6
- noun
- /ˈsɛpəreɪtnəs/
:
separación
- There is no separateness in our items.
- corporate separateness
- operational separateness
- sense of separateness
Autonomy and togetherness, commitment and freedom, connection and separateness, security and adventure.
- Autonomy and togetherness, commitment and freedom, connection and separateness, security and adventure.
- You forget that you are separate simply by forgetting your physical separateness.
- But if we look to the redemptive quality of being, having that gift of perception of separateness, it may be so that we can see beauty.
- I'm going to get it wrong, but it's something like we're here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
- We need security and we need freedom and adventure and we need togetherness and we need separateness.
- So I think that the beauty of cultures are seen what in their separate, in their separateness, right?
Examples
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Tennyson consistently held this position on the separateness of scientific and moral knowledge.
Academic text (1992) -
She valued her separateness, often taking time alone to reflect and recharge.
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Yet the wall could not have been meant for me, or against me, but rather for separateness' sake.
Fiction book (1994) -
Not all of us are so concerned with the separateness of races, Professor.
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In doing so, we simply become one with the One and lose our apparent separateness from it.
Academic text (1997) -
Corporate separateness is determined by legal separateness and by operational separateness.
Academic text (1998) -
Oneness and separateness are in a tension that will exist until our death.
Academic text (1990) -
In reality, the oceanic feeling and the feeling of separateness are mutually enhancing.
Academic text (1990) -
These are exclusionary constructs designed to foster the illusion of separateness.
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According to Chodorow, true differentiation, true separateness in mother-daughter relationships "must precisely involve two selves, two presences, two subjects."
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
172
3.7
A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally
89
2.6
The process of moving apart or staying apart
18
5.3
The act of separating people or things into different groups, often by law
6
8.0
Being seen as different from most people or from what is usual
4
6.1
The act of separating something from the thing it is connected to
1
6.7
A state of being separate from other people
1
5.6
Being clearly different from others
1
6.3
The fact that two things are not the same
The state of being separate and clearly different from other things
A difference between people, groups, or places
A situation where groups are split and do not work together
A big difference between things that are not similar
Antonyms
How Separate
172
3.7
2
6.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Separateness comes from the word separate, which itself comes from the old Latin word separare meaning 'to set apart'. So separateness is the state of being 'apart' or clearly different from others.