Definition of "separateness" [separateness]

• The property of being separate. (noun)

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• "There's a feeling of separateness from the rest of the country."
• "Her experience in the hospitality trade may have made her less fastidious about the company she kept, but her sardonic comments about her Irish "friends" revealed that a sense of separateness from the plebeian community already existed — a distance that was even more pronounced within the next generation of middle-class women in the area."
• "Our separateness is one of our basic themes in poetry."