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/dɪˈstɪŋktɪvnəs/
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[ UK /dɪstˈɪŋktɪvnəs/ ]
[ UK /dɪstˈɪŋktɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
- a distinguishing trait
- utter dissimilarity
How To Use distinctiveness In A Sentence
- They created a market niche by executing a pop-reggae hybrid with more distinctiveness and consistency than did their counterparts.
- In spite of that, the aural evidence affirms that Pole's new music largely retains the distinctiveness of the old, in spite of its radical shift in direction.
- Distinctiveness can be interpreted as the ‘genetic’ difference between a species and its closest relative.
- What will be remembered instead, for its very distinctiveness, is his genius. Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: Praising Menotti - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
- Pole's new music largely retains the distinctiveness of the old, in spite of its radical shift in direction.
- Partly proclaimed through the deployment of special texts at least two of the hymns were written by Marc' Antoine Muret and cantus firmi derived from the S Barbara liturgy, its distinctiveness was additionally underscored by being set in alternatim fashion. Archive 2009-06-01
- Sadly, it has become much less black and Maghrehbian in the past 10 years as it has succumbed to the inner city embourgeoisement that has taken its absolute distinctiveness away. Matthew Yglesias » Charles Murray Sees Nonwhite People
- The characters are overly stiff, like Dan Clowes's work, but without Clowes's eccentricity and distinctiveness.
- Baker's critical project constitutes a search for strategies that help expose the richness, sophistication, and distinctiveness of African American expressivity.
- Much of this distinctiveness can now be ascribed to the influence of Actinocyclus normanii in both the planktonic and benthic food webs.