Definiteness
[de'fɪnətnes]
Definition
(n.) The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.
Typist: Weldon
Examples
- It would not do, of course, to say that all these distinctions persisted in full technical definiteness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As soon as Roosevelt had thrown off the burden of preserving a false harmony among irreconcilable Republicans, he issued a platform full of definiteness and square dealing with many issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Inputed by Logan