Meanings
plural determinatenesses
- 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 2723 more examples
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 20The 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 445Douglas Gale […] made me rethink the question of the determinateness of the price level.
1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page xiSynonyms: determinacy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality or state of being determinate.
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