Singleness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Singleness \Sin"gle*ness\, n.
     1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all
        others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or
        multiplicity.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends;
        purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as,
        singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  singleness
       n 1: without hypocrisy; "the singleness of his motives could not
            be questioned" [syn: {straightforwardness}]
       2: the quality of concentrating on one central objective; "his
          singleness of purpose"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "singleness":
     aloneness, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship,
     celibacy, combination, continence, elementarity, fundamentality,
     fusion, homogeneity, identity, individuality, indivisibility,
     intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability,
     irreducibility, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, maidenhead,
     maidenhood, misogamy, misogyny, monachism, monasticism, monism,
     oneness, organic unity, particularity, plainness, purity,
     selfsameness, severity, simpleness, simplicity, single blessedness,
     single state, singularity, solidarity, solidification, solidity,
     solitariness, solitude, spinsterhood, starkness, unadulteration,
     undividedness, unification, uniformity, uniqueness, unity,
     univocity, unmixedness, unsophistication, unwed state,
     virgin state, virginity, wholeness