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Particularism vs Separate - What's the difference?

particularism | separate |

As nouns the difference between particularism and separate

is that particularism is (theology) the principle that only certain people are chosen by god for salvation while separate is (usually|in the plural) anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

As an adjective separate is

apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).

As a verb separate is

to divide (a thing) into separate parts.

particularism

Noun

(-)
  • (theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
  • An exclusive focus on a particular group, area, sect etc.
  • (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation etc. may act independently of a central authority.
  • *2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 221:
  • *:Despite the dominance of Castile and the stream of centralizing measures flowing from the new capital in Madrid, Aragonese particularism continued to make itself felt right up to the early eighteenth century.
  • separate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
  • This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
  • Not together (with); not united (to).
  • I try to keep my personal life separate from work.

    Verb

    (separat)
  • To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
  • To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
  • * Dryden
  • From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
  • * Bible, Romans viii. 35
  • Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
  • To cause (things or people) to be separate.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
  • To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
  • (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
  • * Bible, Acts xiii. 2
  • Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

    Derived terms

    * separable * separately * separation * separational * separationism * separationist

    Antonyms

    * annex * combine

    See also

    * disunite * disconnect * divide * split * reduce * subtract

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.
  • Usage notes

    * The spelling is (separate). *(term) is a common misspelling.