sameness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SA'MENESS, noun 1. Identity; the state of being not different or other; as the sameness of an unchangeable being. 2. Near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as a sameness of manner; a sameness of sound; the sameness of objects in a landscape. Samian earth. [Gr. the isle.] The name of a marl of two species, used in medicine as an astringent.
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