separate
verb (used with object)
to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space.
separateness
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a word derived from
separate.
Example Sentences
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Amidst current events, what's really solidified my identity as a Jew is a sense of otherness and separateness from the rest of the community — a feeling that I’ve experienced for most of my life.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2023
“Not only are we physically separated from one another, we are culturally, socially and politically separated from each other, and the end to that separateness is not in sight,” Herzog said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
The normal way we act in the world fosters an attitude of separateness and causes us to act against nature or in ways that resist the natural way.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Yet her father’s illness destabilizes that sense of self-sufficiency and separateness — particularly during a season of pandemic isolation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2022
I was intensely aware of where I sat, the volume of darkness I displaced, the shiny- smooth span of packed dirt between us, and the shocking separateness from me in my mama’s eyes.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
