separativeness

The quality of being separative.

Noun

  1. The quality of being separative.
    • 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 […] - 1843, G. N. Wright, “Lake...
    • The vice of feudalism was its separativeness. Investiture was the only means of contact which the king had with many fiefs. - 1895, James Westfall Thompson, chapter 6, in The Development of the French Monarchy under...
    • 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, The voluntary separativeness of the Jewish people turned,...

Origin

From separative + -ness.