separativeness

English

Etymology

separative +‎ -ness

Noun

separativeness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being separative.
   • 1843, G. N. Wright, “Lake See-Hoo”, in China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of That Ancient Empire‎^[1], volume 1, London: Fisher, Son, & Co., pages 8-9:

     Females are excluded from all participation in these enjoyments, their appearance in such expeditions being deemed derogatory to the privacy and separativeness of the sexes in China […]

   • 1895, James Westfall Thompson, chapter 6, in The Development of the French Monarchy under Louis VI. Le Gros, 1108-1137‎^[2], University of Chicago Press, page 69:

     The vice of feudalism was its separativeness. Investiture was the only means of contact which the king had with many fiefs.

   • 1928, Wayland F. Vaughan, The Lure of Superiority: A Study in the Psychology of Motives, Garden City, NY: The Country Life Press, Part 2, Chapter 7, pp. 202-203,^[3]

     The voluntary separativeness of the Jewish people turned, in time, into an enforced ostracism.

   • 1993, Karin Lofthus Carrington, “Women Loving Women: Speaking the Truth in Love”, in Robert H. Hopcke, Karin Lofthus Carrington, Scott Wirth, editors, Same-Sex Love and the Path to Wholeness‎^[4], Boston: Shambhala, page 91:

     It became clear that through my experiences of loving women and being loved by them, eros had called me beyond my separativeness, beyond those constricting separate chambers in my own heart.