divided
adjective
separated; separate.
dividedness
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a word derived from
divided.
Example Sentences
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He said that 19th-century composers like Brahms were keen to exploit the expressive possibility of polyrhythms because they felt these represented something of the “intrinsic dividedness of the soul itself.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
From this dividedness comes Scarlett, an unresolved amalgam of the high-spirited party girl, thumbing her nose at proprieties, and the lost girl, longing for the love of a disapproving mother.
From Time ● Dec. 15, 2014
Maybe because of our dividedness, we don't have that many heroes who cut across all groups.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2013
Now multitude involves dividedness; but it also involves and presupposes the intrinsic undividedness or unity of each constituent of the manifold.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
In the real order of things the one is prior to all dividedness; but on account of the sensuous origin of our concepts we can define the former only by exclusion of the latter.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
