separatenessn.
/ˈsɛp(ə)rətnəs/, U.S. /ˈsɛp(ə)rətnəs/ The quality, state, or fact of being separate.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > independent or self-existence
perseity1588
self-existency1602
absoluteness1605
self-lifea1631
separateness1635
self-existence1643
a-seity1691
self-containment1841
self-being1853
proseity1899
in-itselfness1906
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > quality or condition of being separate
separateness1635
abstractedness1647
separation1650
asunderness1843
separativeness1901
1635–6 J. Mede Reverence Gods House (1638) 3 Sacred things, which continue their state of separatenesse and sanctitie.
1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. xi. i. 219 I know men and women who pique themselves on their separateness from the world.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xviii. 355 The Jews were steadfast in their separateness, and through that separateness Christianity was born.
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