numberness

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noun

The quality of being a number.

“Richard Spuler, From Here to There […] free-fallers falling less than freely into (predetermined?) places, confirming the grandness of grand, the heaviness of heavy, the truthfulness of lies, the numberness of numbers.”

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Meanings

nounnumberness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being a number.

    Richard Spuler, From Here to There […] free-fallers falling less than freely into (predetermined?) places, confirming the grandness of grand, the heaviness of heavy, the truthfulness of lies, the numberness of numbers.

  2. uncountableeducationCompetence in working with numbers and arithmetic; numeracy.

    Fluent reading and fluency in numberness are analogous.

    2014, Steve Chinn, The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties, page 280
  3. uncountablemathematicsCardinality.

    It helps children to see that the numberness of a "set" can be represented by a numeral.

    1966, Saturday Review, volume 49, page 73

Origin

From number + -ness.

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APA

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“numberness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numberness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “numberness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numberness.

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