elementarity

English

Noun

elementarity (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) elementariness (the quality of being elementary).
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     For, though Moses have left no mention of minerals,
     nor made' any other description than suits unto the apparent and visible creation,
     yet is there, unquestionably, a very large class of creatures in the earth,
     far above the condition of elementarity.

References

• “elementarity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.