distinctiveness

Noun

Meaning

State of being distinctive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

specialty speciality peculiarity specialness uniqueness disparateness mark character quality mannerism difference contrast identity distinction personality
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Antonyms

community consonance agreement identity accuracy correspondence
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Hypernyms

individualism individuality individuation dissimilarity unsimilarity

Hyponyms

mannerism idiosyncrasy foible

Examples

It is time to celebrate diversity and distinctiveness. Alex Salmond

The characteristic of life does not lie in a distinctiveness of single life processes. [Lebensvorgänge], but rather in a certain order among all the processes. Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Also from India, artisans and stonemasons designed the mosque’s dome, giving it its distinctiveness amongst the other buildings. Source: Internet

A place of “fizzing cool”, Bubala serves “immaculately seasoned” laffa bread, and cocktails with both “gulpability and a snap of distinctiveness.” Source: Internet

According to Robert Hodgart, an urban geographer and retired lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, this phenomenon is a “visibly conspicuous facet of Scotland’s distinctiveness, which gives it a stronger affinity with continental Europe”. Source: Internet

A Mosque next to an English street full of houses bearing the flag of St. George, according to alt-righters, is neither an English street nor a Muslim street — separation is necessary for distinctiveness. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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