Hypertext Webster Gateway: "singleness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

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

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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"


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