separativeness en · NOUN
Etymology
From separative + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being separative.
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 Louis VI. Le Gros, 1108-1137, University of Chicago Press, page 69: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 See-Hoo”, in China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of That Ancient Empire, volume 1, London: Fisher, Son, & Co., pages 8-9:1928, 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, in time, into an enforced ostracism.
It became clear that through my experiences of loving women and being loved by them, eros had called me beyond my separativeness, beyond those constricting separate chambers in my own heart.
1993, Karin Lofthus Carrington, “Women Loving Women: Speaking the Truth in Love”, in Robert H. Hopcke, Karin Lofthus Carrington, Scott Wirth, editors, Same-Sex Love and the Path to Wholeness, Boston: Shambhala, page 91: