separateness

Noun

Meaning

the state of being several and distinct

the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known

political independence

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

distinctness otherness severalty discreteness separate separatism difference contrast independence opposition distinction separation departure diversity withdrawal
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Antonyms

assembly matriculation membership employment draft acceptance
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Hypernyms

difference independence separation independency

Examples

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. Arthur Miller

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. Erich Fromm

As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. Ram Dass

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union. Rollo May

In separateness only does love learn definition. Robert Penn Warren

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness. Nhat Hanh

Close letter words and terms

separatedness separatee separately separatical separating separating agent