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noun

Distinctness n.

The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. "The soul's... distinctness from the body."

Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.

Synonyms: Plainness; clearness; precision; perspicuity.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Distinctness" Quotes from Famous Books

... make out the s.s. Cox); "The City of New York," "Senator Morton," "The Senate has resolved to print a thousand extra copies," "The Americans in London have resolved to celebrate the coming Fourth of July!" All this my own ears heard spoken to me with unmistakable distinctness by the then circular disc armature of just such another little electro-magnet as this I ...

— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro

... morning of February the clearness of the atmosphere was in truth almost African. Under the cloudless sky every detail of the great view from the terrace stood out with a magical distinctness. The lines of the mountains were sharply defined against the profound blue. The forms of the gray rocks scattered upon their slopes, of the peasants' houses, of the olive and oak trees which grew thickly on ...

— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

... there are many events which I have drawn with blurred edges by reason of the distance of time; but from this to the end of my story I have the pettiest details of it in mind, many of them with a horrid distinctness. ...

— Nancy Stair - A Novel • Elinor Macartney Lane

... White Chalk. Chalky Matter now forming in the Bed of the Atlantic. Marked Difference between the Cretaceous and existing Fauna. Chalk-flints. Pot-stones of Horstead. Vitreous Sponges in the Chalk. Isolated Blocks of Foreign Rocks in the White Chalk supposed to be ice-borne. Distinctness of Mineral Character in contemporaneous Rocks of the Cretaceous Epoch. Fossils of the White Chalk. Lower White Chalk without Flints. Chalk Marl and its Fossils. Chloritic Series or Upper Greensand. Coprolite Bed near Cambridge. Fossils of the Chloritic Series. Gault. ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... moment, happening to cast my eyes upon the stone, whose characters a transverse light from my southern window brings out with singular distinctness, another interpretation has occurred to me, promising even more interesting results. I hasten to close my letter in order to follow at once ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

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