Separateness

Definitions

The property of being separate.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“In “The Liberation,” a 30‐yearold^([sic]) college teacher breaks out of the psychic loneliness of a smothering family into the redeeming sense⟳ of her separateness; she had been kept from the person she really was.”

“A prideful sense⟳ of separateness prevails toward what Mrs. Moskowitz called “frenetic” Manhattan and “the hipper parts of Brooklyn.””

“Professor Marty saw⟳ Americans retreating into “separatenesses” by choice, and he worried, with Reinhold Niebuhr, that “the chief source of man’s inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense⟳ of obligation to the other man.””

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