separateness

Example Sentences

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Amidst current events, what's really solidified my identity as a Jew is a sense of otherness and separateness from the rest of the community — a feeling that I’ve experienced for most of my life.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2023

“Not only are we physically separated from one another, we are culturally, socially and politically separated from each other, and the end to that separateness is not in sight,” Herzog said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2022

The normal way we act in the world fosters an attitude of separateness and causes us to act against nature or in ways that resist the natural way.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Yet her father’s illness destabilizes that sense of self-sufficiency and separateness — particularly during a season of pandemic isolation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2022

In a way, it is the most unbiologic of all phenomena, violating the most fundamental myth of the last century, for it denies the importance of specificity, integrity, and separateness in living things.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas