Meanings
- rareuncountableThe property of being seventeen.
None of these descriptions seems to give you a clue to the intrinsic seventeenness of 17 – the unique feature which makes it the very number that it is.
1999, Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope2 more examples
It was the first time in all the largesse of her youth that such a tone had assailed Zoe. The very seventeenness of her revolted; she dropped her attitude.
1921, Fannie Hurst, Stardust: The Story of an American GirlMight not some language somewhere offer a seventeenness category that would create immediate recognition of that many items? Such a category seems unlikely, of course, and we might see it as excluded by capacity limitations on focal consciousness, limitations that would be far exceeded by a display of seventeen items.
2013, Shannon Bischoff, Carmen Jany, Functional Approaches to Language, page 126
Origin
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