separateness

Other forms of separateness

plural

separatenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about separateness

What does separateness mean?

separateness means "the state of being several and distinct". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in separateness?

separateness has 4 syllables: separ-a-te-ness. The stress falls on "separ". In IPA it is /ˈsɛpɚətnəs/.

What is another word for separateness?

Close synonyms include discreteness, distinctness, severalty, otherness, distinctness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is separateness a common word?

separateness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.