Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being distinctive; distinctive character; individuality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State of being distinctive.
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- noun The quality of being
distinctive ,individual ordiscrete - noun Something which
distinguishes something from anything else
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- noun utter dissimilarity
- noun a distinguishing trait
Etymologies
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Examples
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What defines our distinctiveness is the fact that we, unlike the United States, are not a republic.
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Credible complexity in a character can be achieved in at least two ways: Either distinctiveness is a matter of the sometimes gaudy and eye-catching methods of personality -- stark red hair, deep sag to the breast, the tortured lisp of the poorly born -- or it can be a presentation of the sometimes invisible but momentously significant suasions that inhabit us all -- the '' not-thought in thought, the unseen in the visible, the places into which the imagination must reach.
Comedy in Literature 2010
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Their own sense of ethnic distinctiveness is identified through religion — Theravada Buddhism — and language — Sinhala.
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Their own sense of ethnic distinctiveness is identified through religion — Theravada Buddhism — and language — Sinhala.
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Their own sense of ethnic distinctiveness is identified through religion — Theravada Buddhism — and language — Sinhala.
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Its biological distinctiveness is outstanding in the world, with great biological, ecological, and evolutionary biodiversity.
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What will be remembered instead, for its very distinctiveness, is his genius.
Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: Praising Menotti - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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What will be remembered instead, for its very distinctiveness, is his genius.
Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: Praising Menotti - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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The recognition of Quebec's distinctiveness is not new.
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During O’Sullivan’s tenure as editor, he frequently wrote or published essays that identified and reminded readers of the nation’s problem of forgetting its political distinctiveness from the rest of the world.
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