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- noun The property of being
five in number.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The eggs also have a basic property called a 'fiveness', and the fiveness of the eggs and the fiveness of the apples are NOT the same.
Unthinkable Roger Phillips Graham 1937
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Society without any special relation to "fiveness," or the
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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And the fiveness and tenness of the fingers and toes!
Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990
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A fiveness placed with another fiveness makes a tenness.
Unthinkable Roger Phillips Graham 1937
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To express this, Mr. Smyth suggests the new noun "fiveness."
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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"symbolisation" of five; and there is not the slightest ground for any belief that the apparent "fiveness" of anything in the Great Pyramid had
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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