numericity

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noun

The quality of being numeric.

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Meanings

nounnumericity (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being numeric.

    The use of number to model numericity itself raises the intriguing possibility that there might be systems of denumeration that are mathematical but not quantifactional, such as the one in use by the Daribi people of Papua New Guinea as late as the 1960s.

    2005, Mark S. Mosko, Frederick H. Damon, On the Order of Chaos, page 213

Origin

From numeric + -ity.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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