Synonyms for distinctiveness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dih-stingk-tiv |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈstɪŋk tɪv |
Définition of distinctiveness
Origin :- early 15c., from Old French distinctif and directly from Medieval Latin distinctivus, from Latin distinct-, past participle of distinguere (see distinguish). Meaning "markedly individual" is from 1580s. Related: Distinctively; distinctiveness.
- noun individuality
- It is the distinctiveness, not the universality of the truth, which renders it important.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
- By doing so he would augment his own dignity and the distinctiveness of his office.
- Extract from : « English Secularism » by George Jacob Holyoake
- Christians:asserting their distinctiveness, 271 ff.trying to conquer the Spirit, 122 ff.
- Extract from : « The Ego and His Own » by Max Stirner
- Manning had what has been called "the ambition of distinctiveness."
- Extract from : « Collections and Recollections » by George William Erskine Russell
- What was gained in distinctness might have been lost in distinctiveness, and after all he did technically put us upon our guard.
- Extract from : « Essays on Life, Art and Science » by Samuel Butler
- The modern Church is in grave danger of forgetting the distinctiveness of her gospel and the glorious isolation of her position.
- Extract from : « The Literature and History of New Testament Times » by J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen
- This distinctiveness is more marked among the interior groups where the soldered type of lobe increases to 31 percent.
- Extract from : « A Racial Study of the Fijians » by Norman E. Gabel
- According to this view, the value of a title lies, not in its appropriateness to the subject-matter, but in its distinctiveness.
- Extract from : « Birds of the Plains » by Douglas Dewar
- I am not pleading for fancy names, but just for that distinctiveness in choice which the artistic sense decides is fitting.
- Extract from : « How to Write a Novel » by Anonymous
- The holiness which is at once its distinctiveness and its hallowing comprehends and can sanctify all relations of life.
- Extract from : « The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern » by Knowles King
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