stand-aloneness

English

Etymology

From stand-alone +‎ -ness.

Noun

stand-aloneness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being stand-alone, independent or self-explanatory.
    • 2019 October 31, Greg Githens, “How a Strategic Decision Differs From a Tactical Decision”, in Leading Strategic Initiatives‎[1]:
      The first essential characteristic of a strategic decision is stand-aloneness, which means that the decision is independent of other decisions.
    • 1998, William Shakespeare, edited by René Weis, Henry IV, part 2, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, Introduction, page 58:
      It is precisely Falstaff's stand-aloneness which can make Shakespeare lift him out of the Lancastrian period and transport him to Elizabethan Windsor.
    • 2005, Victor S. Navasky, A Matter of Opinion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
      The conventional wisdom tells us that in the world of mass magazines, so-called stand-alones are a thing of the past. Not so in the world of opinion journals, where stand-aloneness seems to be something of a necessary condition.

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