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absolutenesses

absolutenesses is the plural of absoluteness.

Meaning of absoluteness

Noun

absoluteness (usually uncountable, plural absolutenesses)

  1. (obsolete, usually) The fact of being finished or perfected; completeness.
  2. (usually) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
    • the absoluteness of his sovereignty, the absoluteness of his convictions
  3. (usually) Absolute authority, unlimited power; absolutism, despotism.
    • I know no man that could produce more parts, both naturall and artificiall, fit to preserve his masterie, and to maintaine his absolutenesse, than he doth; yet is hee cleane falne from them like a childe.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 228
  4. (usually) The fact of being without qualifications or conditions; certainty, unconditionality.
  5. (usually) Independent autonomy.

Questions about absolutenesses

What is absolutenesses the plural of?
Absolutenesses is the plural of absoluteness.

Words near absolutenesses in the dictionary

  1. absolutely cinematic
  2. absolutely convergent
  3. absolutely flat
  4. absolutely summable
  5. absoluteness
  6. absolutenesses
  7. absoluter
  8. absolutes
  9. absolutes of enfleurage
  10. absolutest
  11. absolution

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