distinctiveness

2 definitions found

distinctiveness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Distinctiveness \Dis*tinc"tive*ness\, n.
     State of being distinctive.
     [1913 Webster]

distinctiveness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  distinctiveness
      n 1: a distinguishing trait [syn: peculiarity, specialness,
           specialty, speciality, distinctiveness]
      2: utter dissimilarity [syn: disparateness, distinctiveness]