determinateness

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noun

The quality or state of being determinate.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noundeterminateness (usually uncountable, plural determinatenesses)

plural determinatenesses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe quality or state of being determinate.

    […] his determinateness and his power, seemed to make allies unnecessary; […]

    1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 272
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    It cannot be expected that our classifications should vie in accuracy and determinateness with those of natural science.

    1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20

    The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.

    1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 445

    Douglas Gale […] made me rethink the question of the determinateness of the price level.

    1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page xi

    Synonyms: determinacy

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe quality or state of being determinate.

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe quality of being predictable with great confidence

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

determinateness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/determinateness

MLA

“determinateness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/determinateness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “determinateness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/determinateness.

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