0 the quality of being the same as or very similar to something else: --
1 the quality of being the same as or very similar to something: --
The attribution of coherence requires similarity, sameness, and thus the denial or de-emphasizing of difference.
What if we were instead to 'attend to sameness'; to seek to 'recover our commonality'?
Subsequent attempts to ground citizenship in difference rather than sameness have greatly intensified the tension with a more persistent culture of patriotism.
In this passage, knowledge of sameness dissolves ethnic fear; that dissolution in turn gives rise to sympathetic energy.
In this case we are told that it is sameness in nature as appropriate for liquids, which is roughly microstructural identity.
So even in odd reflexives (like middles), you can find a conceptualization of semantic sameness.
As officers hunted through men's pockets for evidence, they simultaneously attempted to stabilize the boundary between difference and sameness.
The task was designed to measure the ability to compare a difference in the object with sameness of word.