"differentness" meaning in English

See differentness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: differentnesses [plural]
Etymology: different + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|different|ness}} different + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} differentness (countable and uncountable, plural differentnesses)
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being different. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-differentness-en-noun-mUrBn2H0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 82 18
  2. (countable) The result or product of being different. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-differentness-en-noun-qQKtqDkc

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for differentness meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "different",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "different + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "different + -ness",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "differentnesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "differentness (countable and uncountable, plural differentnesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 14",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being different."
      ],
      "id": "en-differentness-en-noun-mUrBn2H0",
      "links": [
        [
          "different",
          "different"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The state or quality of being different."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "The result or product of being different."
      ],
      "id": "en-differentness-en-noun-qQKtqDkc",
      "links": [
        [
          "different",
          "different"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) The result or product of being different."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "differentness"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ness",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "different",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "different + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "different + -ness",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "differentnesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "differentness (countable and uncountable, plural differentnesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 14",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being different."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "different",
          "different"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The state or quality of being different."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The result or product of being different."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "different",
          "different"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) The result or product of being different."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "differentness"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (372f256 and 664a3bc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.