separateness
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈsɛpəˌreɪtnəs/
:
independencia
- During the American participation in the Great War, the United States had referred to itself as "associated" with the Western Allies, thereby emphatically underscoring the continued element of American separateness from the European powers.
Examples
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The two tasks of Native nationalist criticism are complementary: criticism supports nationalism by relating literary works to a national tradition in order to demonstrate the separateness of the nation that produced it.
Academic text (2016) -
In particular, their focus on the degree of separateness of military and civilian sectors and the likelihood of the armed forces seizing political power has often been misplaced.
Academic text (2002) -
Course numbers reflect the separateness of the department, and the faculty may communicate more often with each other than with instructors from academic departments.
Academic text (2002) -
But the nation has survived this separateness with the commitment of its various groups to the country intact and with their patriotism undiminished.
Academic text (1998) -
Federal Indian policy reflected these themes, in the context of which Indian separateness and distinctiveness were viewed as 'un-American.'
Academic text (2008) -
It is historic because it is timely and opportune as we move into the new century to examine the relationship between the two top trading partners in the world. Canada and the United States like and need each other, but we value our separateness.
Academic text (2000) -
What this might mean, of course, is that the Van Slycks left Mohawk country for a life among the Dutch precisely as the Dutch were fencing themselves in and emphasizing their separateness from Indians.
Academic text (2010) -
William da Silva Lima reported that the two groups did not coexist without tensions, claiming that the middle-class political prisoners wanted to retain their separateness, their identity as political prisoners distinct from the nonpolitical prisoners.
Academic text (1996) -
The new policy emphasized the state of separateness that the region desired from the central government.
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The organization sought political separateness to better address the unique needs of its community.
Synonyms
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3.0
Freedom from control by others, for example when a country is free or a person supports themselves
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2.6
The process of moving apart or staying apart
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6.7
The right of a region or group to run its own government
Freedom from control by other people or groups
A region that has its own government separate from the national government
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Separateness comes from separate (from the Latin separare, 'to set apart'), so in a political sense it means being 'apart' or 'independent' as a group or country that is not joined with others.