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15 words match “FINITENESS”

FINITENESS n.
The state of being finite.
DEFINITENESS n.
The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.
INDEFINITENESS n.
The quality of being indefinite.
INFINITENESS n.
The state or quality of being infinite; infinity; greatness; immensity. Jer. Taylor.
ARTICULATION n.
The state of being jointed; connection of parts. [R.] That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge.
BION n.
The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.
DEFINITUDE n.
Definiteness. [R.] Definitude . . . is a knowledge of minute differences. Sir W. Hamilton.
DOUBTFULNESS n.
Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke.
EXPRESSNESS n.
The state or quality of being express; definiteness. [Obs.] Hammond.
INDEFINITUDE n.
Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite. [Obs.] Sir M . Hale.
INDISTINCTNESS n.
The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.
INFINITUDE n.
The quality or state of being infinite, or without limits; infiniteness.
INTELLIGIBILITY n.
The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.
MORPHON n.
A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology. Haeckel.
PRECISION n.
cise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke.