Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being distinct, in any sense of that word.
- noun Synonyms Distinctness, Distinction (see
distinction ), plainness, perspicuity, explicitness, lucidity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things.
- noun Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property or degree of being
distinct .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being several and distinct
- noun the quality of being sharp and clear
- noun the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known
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Examples
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One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty.
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Like a man who is drowning, and close to death, he saw with surprising distinctness a kaleidoscopic view of his past life.
The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life Charles Klein 1891
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One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 09 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty.
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One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845
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One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty.
On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845
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Pathfinder_ and T.oreau; the scent of the soil, once again, in rain and in shine, is it not conveyed to us with an astonishing distinctness, that is the product of a literary endowment of the rarest order, by such writers as Izaak Walton and Robert Burns, and among recent writers in varying degrees by Richard Jefferies and by Barnes, by T. E.
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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Her very words had a sort of distinctness which is sometimes produced by sharp, bodily pain.
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In the constitutional debate, our obsession with the arithmetic of equalization and the vocabulary of "distinctness" has obscured the importance of this moral dimension, the dimension of justice.
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The Affections cannot be analyzed and comprehended with the same kind of distinctness with which we comprehend Thought and Imagination; because that which belongs to the Understanding can be expressed or described in words, and in that form be passed from one to another; while the
The Elements of Character Mary G. Chandler
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