Singleness
[siŋglnis]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of concentrating on one central objective; 'his singleness of purpose'.
(noun.) without hypocrisy; 'the singleness of his motives could not be questioned'.
Typist: Osborn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.
(n.) Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Unity, individuality.[2]. Purity, simplicity.[3]. Sincerity, integrity, uprightness, ingenuousness.[4]. Celibacy, single blessedness.
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Examples
- It was impossible to see this grand and imposing sight, and not to feel its singleness, if we may so speak. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But I should like them to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Only the delusion that his truth is the whole truth, his party the human race, and his program a panacea, will produce that singleness of vision. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Those revolutionists who see the misery of the country as a deliberate and fiendish plot overestimate the bad will, the intelligence and the singleness of purpose in the ruling classes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had a strange furtive pride and slinking singleness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He must be an artist, nobody else could have such fine adjustment and singleness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A reg'lar coachman's a sort o' con-nectin' link betwixt singleness and matrimony, and every practicable man knows it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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