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distinctness

noun as in discreteness

noun as in clearness

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Dallas has a humid subtropical climate, and experiences four distinct seasons each year.

Each episode is a tidy 20-ish minutes, starring individuals with a distinct perspective on the birds’ plight, including an elder Northern Paiute of the Warm Springs Reservation, a rancher, and a biologist.

The entity is separate from law enforcement, even having its own distinct helpline for people to call.

Several recent studies have connected distinct differences in HLA genes to bad reactions to specific drugs.

Wall Street has been handicapping the odds for months, and Goldman Sachs, among others, still believes a so-called “blue sweep” is a distinct possibility, even if the odds are slipping.

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The moon sailed out from under a mass of clouds at this point, giving to objects the distinctness of daylight.

The sound of footsteps in the hall outside penetrated with ominous distinctness into the library.

It is true, I could see them; but not with sufficient distinctness to insure the proper insertion of the initial threads.

Poets who give and follow such advice as this, grow to have a horror of distinctness of thought.

To be sure, he could imagine with tolerable distinctness the sensations to be experienced in such a crisis.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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