Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being radical, in any sense.

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

  • noun Quality or state of being radical.

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  • noun the state or the quality of being radical.

Etymologies

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radical +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Not only is her life in danger, but her co-called radicalness then threatens the life of her family and the very existence of the show.

    Voices From Kabul 2009

  • and the urge to watch The Wedding Singer to relive all the 'radicalness' of the 80's

    Working for the Clampdown: The Importance of Word Choice BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • In fact, if Roosvelt were to have proposed that the Federal Gov't of the Reagan era (say 1985) be ported into 1930 the radicalness of such a change would have made him look like Lenin.

    Did the New Deal Fail?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • There is an interesting article in the Guardian, which highlights the lack of radicalness in the Tories and Labour proposals of banking reform.

    It really is just ‘business as usual’… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009

  • By sitting in that congregation, he supported the radicalness of that message – is that system of belief what we want our President to have?

    Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate 2008

  • But once he's in now, there's a lot of radicalness to what he's trying to achieve, and that doesn't fly with middle America.

    CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2009 2009

  • In the entire biblical epic of Israel, only Abraham approaches this radicalness, but then he had a call from God (Gen, 12: 1 – 3) and also a wife.

    Ruth: Bible. 2009

  • Clinton may not win either, but if Obama can't beat Clinton in the Democratic primaries with all their leaning towards left-wing radicalness (at least compared with the country as a whole), then he has no hope in the general election, no matter how many idiotic Zogby polls one cites.

    Obama: Being Wife Of President Does Not Constitute Experience 2009

  • They talked vaginas, more vaginas, the radicalness of mommyblogging from a dad's perspective, the reasons why the road more medicated is sometimes the road best travelled, corpses in bathrooms, team building and swallowing cameras, how to be almost sort-of always sometimes Canadian, and - because it wouldn't be a well-rounded week of guest posts if it didn't come full circle back to genitalia - balls and porn.

    Getting Back To Business 2008

  • They talked vaginas, more vaginas, the radicalness of mommyblogging from a dad's perspective, the reasons why the road more medicated is sometimes the road best travelled, corpses in bathrooms, team building and swallowing cameras, how to be almost sort-of always sometimes Canadian, and - because it wouldn't be a well-rounded week of guest posts if it didn't come full circle back to genitalia - balls and porn.

    Archive 2008-08-17 2008

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