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distinctness

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The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things.

Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.

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An artist produces an effect in virtue of the distinctness with which he sees the objects he represents, seeing them not vaguely as in vanishing apparitions, but steadily, and in their most characteristic relations. To this Vision he adds artistic skill with which to make us see. George Henry Lewes

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is remarkable,” mused Graham, "the intensity with which I am not listening and the distinctness with which I do not hear a word you say. Isaac Asimov

As reason is symbolic thinking, and peculiarly human, then this implies that humans have a special ability to maintain a clear consciousness of the distinctness of "icons" or images and the real things they represent. Source: Internet

Many of the Celtic languages have experienced resurgences in modern years, spurred on partly by the action of artists and musicians who have embraced them as hallmarks of identity and distinctness. Source: Internet

Moreover, the comet being magnified much beyond what its light would admit of, appeared hazy and ill-defined with these great powers, while the stars preserved that lustre and distinctness which from many thousand observations I knew they would retain. Source: Internet

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