determinateness

English

Etymology

From determinate +‎ -ness.

Noun

determinateness (usually uncountable, plural determinatenesses)

1. The quality or state of being determinate.

   Synonym: determinacy

   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 272:

     […] his determinateness and his power, seemed to make allies unnecessary; […]

   • 1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20:

     It cannot be expected that our classifications should vie in accuracy and determinateness with those of natural science.

   • 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section IV, page 445:

     The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.

   • 1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page xi:

     Douglas Gale […] made me rethink the question of the determinateness of the price level.