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quantitativeness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or condition of being quantitative.

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  • noun The state or quality of being quantitative.

Etymologies

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quantitative +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I think that evaluation of the diagram needs to be done with some quantitativeness numbers describing order and amount of connectivity as well as in comparison to other networks of researchers.

    Whitfield SubCommittee: Witnesses to be questioned « Climate Audit 2006

  • I also don't like listing things or quantitativeness (yes, that is a word) in general, which is why a lot of Buddhism doesn't seem to suit me (7 of this, 36 of that, 3 of the other, etc.).

    anne-jumps Diary Entry anne-jumps 2003

  • Besides quantitativeness itself [the Absolute-Principle] does not possess quantity, which belongs only to things participating in it, a consideration which shows that Quantitativeness is an Idea-Principle.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • We can only now remark that, on the one hand, classifications and nomenclatures have aided science by continually subdividing the subject-matter of research, and giving fixity and diffusion to the truths disclosed; and that on the other hand, they have caught from it that increasing quantitativeness, and that progress from considerations touching single phenomena to considerations touching the relations among many phenomena, which we have been describing.

    Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

  • That which we further found by analysis to form the more specific characteristic of scientific previsions, as contrasted with the previsions of uncultured intelligence -- their quantitativeness -- we also see to have been the characteristic alike in the initial steps in science, and of all the steps succeeding them.

    Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

  • Marx’s project is a project of conscious history, in which the quantitativeness that arises out of the blind development of merely economic productive forces must be transformed into a qualitative appropriation of history.

    The Society of the Spectacle-by Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009

  • Marx’s project is a project of conscious history, in which the quantitativeness that arises out of the blind development of merely economic productive forces must be transformed into a qualitative appropriation of history.

    2009 October 2009

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