The quality or state of being discriminate; the characteristic of making careful distinctions or showing prejudicial treatment.
From discriminate plus -ness suffix. This abstract noun formation became common in English to express the quality of a behavior or characteristic that discriminates between categories.
The '-ness' suffix is one of English's most productive word-building tools—you can attach it to almost any adjective to turn a quality into a countable concept.
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