categoricalness

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noun

The quality of being categorical, absolute, or positive.

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Meanings

nouncategoricalness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being categorical, absolute, or positive.

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    1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 57–58

Origin

From categorical + -ness.

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categoricalness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/categoricalness

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