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English

Noun

singleness

The property of being single.

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]

WordNet 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"

Moby Dictionary
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