differentness
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈdɪfərəntnəs/
:
diferencia
- Living in a big city allowed her to embrace her sense of differentness, which she had always tried to hide.
Examples
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I don't stand out so much, but I am keenly aware of my "differentness."
Blog text (24) -
The idea of your own inner sovereignty, and the feeling of apartness, that I think stems from a history of differentness.
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Does the relationship with teachers exacerbate feelings of differentness from other students?
Academic text (1993) -
This sense of his own differentness, his separateness, was very strong in Jeremy.
Fiction book (1997) -
Groups have a sense of differentness from the population, based on a salient and socially important characteristic.
Academic text (2007) -
The more closely associated with social events, the less likely subjects were to indicate perceptions of differentness.
Academic text (1993) -
Differentness within the family is covered up by including, as already noted, other kin and neighbors.
Academic text (2002) -
Whatever differentness I felt, I would have suppressed for fear of ostracism and, more generally, of being isolated from others.
Academic text (2002) -
I'll miss the differentness of Ethiopia—the food, the music, the sounds, the smells.
Blog text (7) -
Diagnosis may intensify both the "groupness" and the "differentness" aspects governing public perceptions of people with mental illness.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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3.3
A different form of something, like a design or recipe
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4.6
Qualities that make someone or something different from others
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8.0
Being seen as different from most people or from what is usual
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6.0
A quality that makes someone or something stand out from others
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4.5
A state when two things or people are not alike
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6.6
A situation where things are kept apart from others, for example work and personal life
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9.9
A state of being different from others, often in culture or identity
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5.6
Being clearly different from others
A clear difference between two or more things
Not being the same as another thing
A difference that shows two or more things are not the same
A big difference between things that are not similar
How different two things are when you compare them
The state of having many different kinds of people or things
A state with many different kinds of things
Antonyms
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Differentness is built from different and the ending -ness, where -ness means 'state' or 'quality'. Because different comes from older words meaning 'not the same', differentness means the 'state of being not the same', which is why we use it to talk about how things or people are unlike each other.