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distinctness|dɪˈstɪŋktnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The condition or quality of being distinct or different; separateness; individuality.
1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. x. (1713) 200 The opinion of the Immortality of the Soul and personal distinctness of the deceased in the other life. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 37 (R.) To assert the soul's immortality, together with its incorporeity or distinctness from the body. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. viii. 116 The Turkish Government was..sensible of the distinctness of the ‘nations’ held under its sway. 1890[see distinction 9].
2. The condition or quality of being distinct or clear; clearness, plainness.
a. As a quality of the object: Capability of being clearly perceived or understood.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 413 The Character here proposed..the Facility, Comliness and Distinctness of it. 1794Home in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 9 Judging of distinctness by the legibility of the letters. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. xi. (1894) 271 In the evening light each ridge and peak..stands out with startling distinctness. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 105 To use the lyre on account of the distinctness of the notes.
b. As a quality of perception or thought: cf. distinct a. 3 d.
1654Z. Coke Logick (1657) 5 Our understanding cannot..certainly determine to comprehend the natures of things with distinctnesse. 1794Home in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 21 The distinctness with which an object is seen when the eye is first fixed upon it. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 51 A degree of hesitation..which..shows the absence of all scientific distinctness of thought. |