differentness

English

Etymology

different +‎ -ness

Noun

differentness (countable and uncountable, plural differentnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being different.
   • 1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 14:

     Only recently […] have biographies incorporated an analysis of an individual's sexuality, not in some vulgar Freudian sense, but as helping to explain someone's internal sense of differentness or specialness — or, as I suspect in Lowenstein's case, aloneness — that becomes a springboard for a special life.

2. (countable) The result or product of being different.