Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being alternative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
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- noun The state of being
alternative or representingalternatives .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Interesting question I prefer science fiction for the science/alternativeness; characters are less important.
Who are Your Favorite Science Fiction Characters From TV/Film? 2006
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This paper builds upon my own recently published research on Peel in order to explore the relationship of band and broadcaster. 1 I set this relationship within a wider context for understanding notions of alternativeness and independence within popular music culture and the manner in which The Fall have existed as the apotheosis of both.
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That the demolishing logic of chavismo has gained its biggest political success by infecting the entire nation with doubt as to the purpose of the voting act, precisely by using it, abusing of it, lowering it to the abject function of being a simple legitimating instrument, abusing of its majority and gutting it of its meaning and of its function as a mechanism or representation and alternativeness?
Electoral registry irregularities and Perez Oramas on the uselessness of voting 2006
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That the demolishing logic of chavismo has gained its biggest political success by infecting the entire nation with doubt as to the purpose of the voting act, precisely by using it, abusing of it, lowering it to the abject function of being a simple legitimating instrument, abusing of its majority and gutting it of its meaning and of its function as a mechanism or representation and alternativeness?
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1962 Hintikka proposed a tense-logical construal of his possible worlds semantics, maintaining that ˜if we do not want to tie our logic to old-fashioned physics, we are undoubtedly wiser if we ¦ no longer require that the alternativeness relation (in this case it could perhaps be more appropriately termed “futurity relation”) effect a linear ordering™ (1963: 76).
The Sun Is Not 2009
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