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separateness

noun

separateness is a noun meaning “The property of being separate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E-N-E-S-S and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of separateness is separatenesses.

What does separateness mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being separate.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce separateness?

    Separateness has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of separateness

    • separatenesses plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is separateness?

    Separateness appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Where does separateness come from?

    From separate + -ness.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).