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Distinctness

noun
1.
The quality of being sharp and clear.  Synonym: sharpness.  Antonyms: softness, indistinctness.
2.
The state of being several and distinct.  Synonyms: discreteness, separateness, severalty.
3.
The quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known.  Synonyms: otherness, separateness.






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"Distinctness" Quotes from Famous Books



... scale of magnitude upon which the ideas belonging to the subject are illustrated in the work; but rather, as we suppose, obviously, and in all cases, upon the integrity and truth with which the particular form that has been contemplated by the artist, is brought out, and the distinctness with which that one specific impression which is appropriate to it, is attained. This is the kind of excellence which we ascribe to Mr. Morris; an excellence of a lofty order; genuine, sincere, and incapable ...
— Poems • George P. Morris

... touching, old-fashioned story is told with perfect grace; the few persons who belong to it are touched on with distinctness ...
— Margaret Montfort • Laura E. Richards

... there in that underground world; yes, and men, too. Girls and women—all waiting, like himself, to be "put through," though what that might mean the poor boy could, of course, have little or no conception. Invisible though these fellow mortals were, he could see their shadows cast with marvelous distinctness upon the floor of the temple; and, strange to say, spotted were all these shadows! Some in a sitting posture, some standing, some walking, some gliding swiftly to and fro. Many, after remaining motionless for a time, would, all at once, begin dodging, skipping, flitting about ...
— The Red Moccasins - A Story • Morrison Heady

... among the thoughtful, were deeply impressed with the probability of his conjectures being well founded. The writer was present when the following little incident took place, and remembers it with distinctness. It was at Greenmount meetinghouse. Brother Martain Miller had led in preaching that day, but had made no allusion to Thurman. After meeting broke up some of the Brethren privately asked Brother Miller what he thought of Thurman's doctrines. He shut ...
— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline

... Compromise with such fanaticism was impossible. Then, with crushing distinctness, he saw what had not before occurred to him. In the estimation of the Mohammedan world, the role of Arbiter was already filled; that which he thought of being, Mahomet was. Too late, too late! In bitterness of soul he flung his arms up ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace


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