Noun: distinctiveness di'stingk-tiv-nus
- A distinguishing trait
"The distinctiveness of her voice made her instantly recognizable";
- peculiarity, specialness, specialty [N. Amer], speciality [Brit, Cdn]
- Utter dissimilarity
"The distinctiveness of their backgrounds made their friendship all the more remarkable";
- disparateness
Type of: dissimilarity, individualism, individuality, individuation, unsimilarity
Encyclopedia: Distinctiveness