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consequentialness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being consequential or consecutive, as in discourse.
  • noun Conceit; pompousness; pretentiousness; the assumption of dignity or importance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being consequential.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the quality or state of being consequential

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Examples

  • Those are the consequences of our consequentialness.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • For me that is self-evident and denotes the obvious contradiction between intentionality (as a teleological standpoint and its extrinsic finalities) and consequentialness (as the most important moral standpoint).

    Democracy: What We Want Is What We Get, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • For the energies of this generation are exhausted; they were spent in the Revolution; for this generation is bled white and there is nothing left of it but a moaning, numbed, apathetic lump of sacrificial flesh … Those are the consequences of our consequentialness.

    Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur, 1905- 1940

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