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Meanings of determinateness in English

Catalan
determinació
Spanish
determinación

The quality of being predictable with great confidence.

determinació
Synonyms
Examples for "definiteness"
Examples for "definiteness"
1
The shadows seemed lacking in definiteness, the outlines and grouping in coherence.
Lord of the World
2
Partly because of the definiteness of the negative results obtained with No.
The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal Behavior
3
Take, for the sake of definiteness, the remembering of a past event.
The Analysis of Mind
4
Sergius sternly declined, but was horrified by the definiteness of his desire.
Father Sergius
5
His reply came swiftly and with a definiteness there was no mistaking.
The Moon out of Reach
Usage of determinateness in English
1
The great difficulty here is the apparent determinateness of species.
A History of Science — Volume 4
2
The integration and determinateness of these faculties is the condition for any synthetic operation of reason.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
3
The universal elements of beauty, again, Aristotle finds (in the Metaphysics) to be order (taxis), symmetry and definiteness or determinateness (to orismenon).
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
Frequent collocations
Translations for determinateness
Determinateness through the time