Picture two things with a line running between them. Nothing has to move along the line for the picture to work; what matters is that the line is there, so the two are not separate. Connectedness is the name for that state of the line being there. Sometimes the two ends are roads or rivers, sometimes they are a phone and another phone, and sometimes they are you and the people you live among.
From the word’s history
connectedness is connected plus the ending -ness, which turns a describing word into the name of a state. So the word literally names the state of being connected, and every use below is a different pair of things that the line runs between.
connectedness 是 connected 加上字尾 -ness。-ness 把形容詞變成一個狀態的名稱。所以它字面上就是「連著的那個狀態」。下面每一個意思，差別只在那條線的兩端是誰。
Wiktionary entry for connectedness (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1427144734): From connected + -ness.
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