From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Singleness \Sin"gle*ness\, noun
1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: without hypocrisy; "the singleness of his motives could not be questioned" [syn: {straightforwardness}]
2: the quality of concentrating on one central objective; "his singleness of purpose"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "singleness": aloneness, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, celibacy, combination, continence, elementarity, fundamentality, fusion, homogeneity, identity, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, maidenhead, maidenhood, misogamy, misogyny, monachism, monasticism, monism, oneness, organic unity, particularity, plainness, purity, selfsameness, severity, simpleness, simplicity, single blessedness, single state, singularity, solidarity, solidification, solidity, solitariness, solitude, spinsterhood, starkness, unadulteration, undividedness, unification, uniformity, uniqueness, unity, univocity, unmixedness, unsophistication, unwed state, virgin state, virginity, wholeness
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