separateness
/sˈɛpɚətnəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree English separate Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English separateness From separate + -ness.