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incommensurableness

incommensurableness noun: incommensurability.

Noun

incommensurableness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Incommensurability.
    • In view of this incommensurableness of most numbers and their respective logarithms, only an approximate definition can be given of a logarithm in general.1865, John Spare, The Differential Calculus, Boston: Bradley, Dayton & Co., page 175
    • The incommensurableness and mystery of the world, which are, perhaps, even more necessary to the very life of religion than the right to regard it teleologically, reassert themselves afresh in the all-too-comprehensible and mathematically-formulated world.1907, chapter 9, in J. Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson, transl., Naturalism And Religion

Origin of incommensurableness

From incommensurable + -ness.

Questions about incommensurableness

What does incommensurableness mean?
Incommensurableness means incommensurability.
What part of speech is incommensurableness?
Incommensurableness is a noun.

Words near incommensurableness in the dictionary

  1. incomitant
  2. incomities
  3. incomity
  4. incommensurability
  5. incommensurable
  6. incommensurableness
  7. incommensurables
  8. incommensurably
  9. incommensurate
  10. incommensurately
  11. incommensurateness

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