Meanings
- rareuncountableThe property of being ten in number.
They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.
1958 May 28, Carolyn J. Ingham, Joseph N. Payne, “An eighth-grade unit on number systems”, in The Mathematics Teacher, volume 51, number 5, page 3921 more example
[…] conveys speaker's expectation referring to the knowledge of the contextual predicate (presence of the pots) which describes the delimitorship of the delimiting property of the subjectness of the subject (the tenness of the pots), delimited by the property such as the tenness-ness, and occurring in an area lesser than the area of the property of the numberness in general […]
1995, V. P. Bhatta, Gadādhara's Śaktivāda: theory of expressive power of words, volume 2
Origin
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