Meanings
noundifferentness (countable and uncountable, plural differentnesses)
plural differentnesses
- uncountableThe state or quality of being different.
1 more example
Only recently […] have biographies incorporated an analysis of an individual's sexuality, not in some vulgar Freudian sense, but as helping to explain someone's internal sense of differentness or specialness — or, as I suspect in Lowenstein's case, aloneness — that becomes a springboard for a special life.
1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 14 - countableThe result or product of being different.
Synonyms & antonyms
Also see
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
- Proto-Italic*dis-
- Latindis-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéreti
- Proto-Italic*ferō
- Latinferō
- Latindifferō
- Latindifferēns
- Old Frenchdifferent
- Middle Englishdifferent
- Englishdifferent
- Englishdifferentness
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APA
differentness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/differentness
MLA
“differentness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/differentness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “differentness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/differentness.
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