partedness

English

Etymology

parted +‎ -ness

Noun

partedness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being parted or separated.
   • 2014, Patricia McKee, Reading Constellations: Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction, page 113:

     The medium of stone and the mediation of touch both effect a communicability and yet a partedness, since the experience Jude summons up and in which he feels connected to the past workers is also an experience that has passed away.

2. (in combination) The quality of having a specified number of parts.

   the five-partedness of a certain flower

Derived terms

• many-partedness