[syn: otherness, distinctness, separateness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Separate \Sep"a*rate\, p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ]
1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected;
separated; -- said of things once connected.
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Him that was separate from his brethren. --Gen.
xlix. 26.
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2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said
of things that have not been connected.
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For such an high priest became us, who is holy,
harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. --Heb.
vii. 26.
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3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate
spirit; the separate state of souls.
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Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman
independent of her husband.
Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by
her husband under deed of separation.
[1913 Webster] -- Sep"a*rate*ly, adv. --
Sep"a*rate*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
separateness
n 1: the state of being several and distinct [syn:
discreteness, distinctness, separateness,
severalty]
2: political independence; "seeking complete political
separateness for Taiwan"
3: the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different
from that otherwise experienced or known [syn: otherness,
distinctness, separateness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "separateness":
alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anarchy, apartheid, celibacy,
chaos, confusion, contrariety, contrast, departure, detachment,
deviation, difference, diffusion, disaccord, disaccordance,
disagreement, disassociation, disconformity, discongruity,
disconnection, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy,
discreteness, disjunction, disjuncture, dislocation, disorder,
disparity, dispersal, dispersion, dissent, dissimilarity,
dissociation, dissolution, dissonance, distinction, distinctness,
divergence, divergency, diversity, entropy, far cry, heterogeneity,
immateriality, impertinence, inaccordance, inapplicability,
inappositeness, incoherence, incompatibility, incongruity,
inconnection, inconsequence, inconsistency, inconsonance,
independence, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony,
irreconcilability, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation,
keeping apart, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, mixture,
moving apart, nonadhesion, noncohesion, nonconformity, odds,
opposition, otherness, privacy, scattering, seclusion, separation,
separatism, sequestration, single blessedness, solitariness,
solitude, splendid isolation, unadherence, unadhesiveness,
unconformity, unconnectedness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy,
unrelatedness, untenacity, variance, variation, variegation,
variety, withdrawal