Meanings
nounradicality (plural radicalities)
plural radicalities
- The quality of being radical; radicalness.
However, the radicality of political praxis and the radicality of Theory might not be of the same order.
2000, "Post-theory: New Directions in Criticism", Martin McQuillan, Graeme Macdonald, Robin Purves, Stephen Thomson, p. 5 - obsoleteGerminal principle; source; origination.
there may be equivocal seeds and hermaphroditical principles, which contain the radicality and power of different forms
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC - obsoleteRadicalness; relation to root in essential nature or principle.
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