Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The attribute or quality of being designed or intended; contrivance.

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  • noun The state or quality of being designed.

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Examples

  • Next, in talking about probabilities, it is interesting to see how ID proponents assign probabilities to the "designedness" (my word, I'm cool like that) of biological functions and structures.

    Stepping into the intelligent design debate... Nicole 2009

  • Next, in talking about probabilities, it is interesting to see how ID proponents assign probabilities to the "designedness" (my word, I'm cool like that) of biological functions and structures.

    Archive 2009-02-27 Nicole 2009

  • It's just that we might only notice the "designedness" of physical constants when we attend to them directly.

    Views jayr 2010

  • And as will be seen later, supernatural design does not necessarily counterflow or intervention in history. designedness entails neither counterflow nor intervention, …

    Blast From the Past 2010

  • Tinkerer's Accomplice explores how Bernard machines in various guises work to bring about designedness in a wide range of living systems.

    Forbes.com: News John Farrell 2011

  • In your experience is there already a clear cut divide, for example, when biologists get together at conferences and symposiums, where the reductionists are more vocal and hostile to teleology and the other side content to keep working away at the research and entertaining different theories of how designedness comes about?

    Forbes.com: News John Farrell 2011

  • You’d think so, wouldn’t you, but that didn’t stop Paley from using an analogy where the clear distinction between a designed watch and an undesigned natural background was meant to prove the designedness of nature.

    Doping ID - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • You’d think so, wouldn’t you, but that didn’t stop Paley from using an analogy where the clear distinction between a designed watch and an undesigned natural background was meant to prove the designedness of nature.

    Doping ID - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • If nature was designed, simple designedness isn’t causing the distinction.

    Volokh on creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • If anything can be determined to have been designed, we’d have to re-examine everything to extract the “degree of designedness” which could well be lurking in every part of life.

    Vacuity of ID: Dembski: Vast Ignorance and Trifling Understanding - The Panda's Thumb 2005

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