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Divided vs Dividedness - What's the difference?

divided | dividedness |

As a verb divided

is past tense of divide.

As an adjective divided

is separated or split into pieces.

As a noun dividedness is

the quality of being divided.

divided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (divide)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • separated or split into pieces
  • having conflicting interests or emotions
  • disunited
  • (US) (of a road ) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median

    • Antonyms

    * undivided * combined * unified

    dividedness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being divided.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 24, author=Michiko Kakutani, title=Lots of Contradictions in Birthin’ That Movie, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“The intensely personal energy of this dividedness , the deep-down tension in Mitchell, Selznick and Leigh between vulgarity and refinement,” she concludes, “is what gives the archetypes in ‘Gone With the Wind’ their extraordinary human resonance,” and thanks to the way the three of them threw themselves into the project, “that historical ‘costume’ story” never feels remotely past. }}

    See also

    * divisiveness