definiteness

NOUN
  1. the quality of being predictable with great confidence
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How To Use definiteness In A Sentence

  • Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm to him. The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
  • At the beginning he admired Sophia's "definiteness" and routines and were an influence on his own journey. Reader reviews of A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler.
  • The whole of the edict bears the character of precipitation, of excitement, (entrainement,) rather than of deliberate reflection — the extent of the promises, the indefiniteness of the means, of the conditions, and of the time during which the parents might have a right to the succor of the state. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm to him. The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
  • But I prefer to use the word phantasm as hinting the indefiniteness into which the Soul spills itself when it seeks to communicate with Matter, finding no possibility of delimiting it, neither encompassing it nor able to penetrate to any fixed point of it, either of which achievements would be an act of delimitation. The Six Enneads.
  • Definiteness needs to be explicitly encoded by a demonstrative; the demonstrative, therefore, counts as an explicit grounding device.
  • Finally, about definiteness marking on direct objects Payne tends to call definiteness "identifiability": Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
  • The whole of the edict bears the character of precipitation, of excitement, (entrainement,) rather than of deliberate reflection -- the extent of the promises, the indefiniteness of the means, of the conditions, and of the time during which the parents might have a right to the succor of the state. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
  • This paper discusses two controversial issues of the English existential definiteness and agreement.
  • It is extremely difficult to distinguish in observation between vagueness of the illusion due to feebleness in the after-image depending on faint illumination, dark-colored discs or lack of the desirable difference in luminosity between the sectors (cf.p. 171) and the indefiniteness which is due to broad transition-bands existing between the (relatively) pure-color bands. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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