Meaning of separativeness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being separative.

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Examples

“Females are excluded from all participation in these enjoyments, their appearance in such expeditions being deemed derogatory to the privacy and separativeness of the sexes in China […]”

“The vice of feudalism was its separativeness. Investiture was the only means of contact which the king had with many fiefs.”

“1928, Wayland F. Vaughan, The Lure of Superiority: A Study in the Psychology of Motives, Garden City, NY: The Country Life Press, Part 2, Chapter 7, pp. 202-203, The voluntary separativeness of the Jewish people turned, in time, into an enforced ostracism.”

“It became clear that through my experiences of loving women and being loved by them, eros had called me beyond my separativeness, beyond those constricting separate chambers in my own heart.”

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