distinctiveness

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“To understand American distinctiveness fully,” Mr. Sutton writes, “we must account for how Christianity shaped and was shaped by every major historical development from education to war.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

The play draws out the distinctiveness of the grandparents by ratcheting up their zingy eccentricities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

The third important factor was the evolutionary distinctiveness or "uniqueness" of the species.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

When it first applied to register the trademark, it argued "Cambridge" was often used to refer to the university or its work, which gave the trademark so-called "acquired distinctiveness".

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2024

In zoological significance and distinctiveness, Homo erectus was more than an ape, but still much less than a modern human.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond