Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being identical; sameness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being identical; sameness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
identical .
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- noun exact sameness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Had they not worn different colors, it would have been impossible to tell them apart, and that was very strange in mature men: identicalness diminished with the years.
Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010
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She thought we needed to play off our identicalness, that one day we'd learn to appreciate our unique situation.
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She thought we needed to play off our identicalness, that one day we'd learn to appreciate our unique situation.
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She has an high opinion of her sex, to think they can charm so long a man so well acquainted with their identicalness.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Coquette tells me that there are many things in the US that have not identicalness with California, but when I imagine the US, I am always conceiving beaches--like Americans with the Tour Eiffel, no?
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In these people the lack of identicalness is more marked, though not to the extent of being a deformity.
Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963
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There is certainly an identicalness of language between the two papers that is well calculated to strengthen this hypothesis.
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I have entirely forgotten what it was, but deem it no great matter, inasmuch as there is a pervading commonplace and identicalness in the composition of extensive dinners, on account of the impossibility of supplying a hundred guests with anything particularly delicate or rare.
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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a pervading commonplace and identicalness in the composition of extensive dinners, on account of the impossibility of supplying a hundred guests with anything particularly delicate or rare.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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"To show the depth and identicalness of the impression which he made upon everybody, foreign or native, an Italian, who stood near me, said to himself, after a sigh, O Dio! 'and this had not been said long when another person in the same manner exclaimed,' O Christ! '
Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands
minerva commented on the word identicalness
She has a high opinion of her sex, to think they can charm so long, with a man so well acquainted with their identicalness.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 13, 2007