Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-TINCT'NESS
DIS-TINCT'NESS, n.
- The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things; as, the distinctness of two ideas, or of distant objects.
- Nice discrimination; whence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.
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