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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Separate \Sep"a*rate\, p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ]
1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.
Him that was separate from his brethren. --Gen. xlix. 26.
2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinnere. --Heb. vii. 26.
3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
{Separate estate} (Law), an estate limited to a married woman independent of her husband.
{Separate maintenance} (Law), an allowance made to a wife by her husband under deed of separation. -- {Sep"a*rate*ly}, adverb -- {Sep"a*rate*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
separateness
noun
1: the state of being several and distinct [syn: {discreteness}, {distinctness}, {severalty}]
2: political independence; "seeking complete political separateness for Taiwan"
3: the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known [syn: {otherness}, {distinctness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "separateness": alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anarchy, apartheid, celibacy, chaos, confusion, contrariety, contrast, departure, detachment, deviation, difference, diffusion, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disassociation, disconformity, discongruity, disconnection, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disjunction, disjuncture, dislocation, disorder, disparity, dispersal, dispersion, dissent, dissimilarity, dissociation, dissolution, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, entropy, far cry, heterogeneity, immateriality, impertinence, inaccordance, inapplicability, inappositeness, incoherence, incompatibility, incongruity, inconnection, inconsequence, inconsistency, inconsonance, independence, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation, keeping apart, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, mixture, moving apart, nonadhesion, noncohesion, nonconformity, odds, opposition, otherness, privacy, scattering, seclusion, separation, separatism, sequestration, single blessedness, solitariness, solitude, splendid isolation, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unconformity, unconnectedness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unrelatedness, untenacity, variance, variation, variegation, variety, withdrawal
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