distinctness

noun

distinctness

noun

US /ˌdɪˈstɪŋkt.nəs/

Etymology From distinct + -ness.

1

Usually The property or degree of being distinct.

  • In New York a Bohemian criminal is such a rarity that the case of two firebugs of several years ago is remembered with damaging distinctness.1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 137:

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