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mathematicality

mathematicality noun: the state of being mathematical or involving mathematics.

Noun

mathematicality (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state of being mathematical or involving mathematics.
    • To conceive of a photographic image as a measuring device is to insist on the mathematicality, calculability, and finally the 'computability' of the image-world.2004, Harun Farocki, Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-lines, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 197
    • By way of analogy, it would in theory also be possible to postulate a concept of a science whose universality and mathematicality are relative only.2007, Kevin Corrigan, John Douglas Turner, Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 138
  2. (rare) Skill at mathematics; numeracy.
    • Many young Blacks suffer from numerophobia for cultural and historic reasons. The new world of the future is likely to require higher levels of mathematicality and a new numerophilia - a fascination with numbers.2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page VI
    • Given what is often thought to be the "mathematicality" of the Jews, their collective capacity for numeracy, I suppose this makes me an outlier.2021 April 21, Jenna Weissman Joselit, “People of the Math Book”, in Tablet Magazine, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022

Synonyms of mathematicality

Origin of mathematicality

From mathematical + -ity.

Questions about mathematicality

What does mathematicality mean?
Mathematicality means the state of being mathematical or involving mathematics.
What part of speech is mathematicality?
Mathematicality is a noun.

Words near mathematicality in the dictionary

  1. mathematical spaces
  2. mathematical statistics
  3. mathematical structure
  4. mathematical structures
  5. mathematicalism
  6. mathematicality
  7. mathematicalize
  8. mathematicalized
  9. mathematicalizes
  10. mathematicalizing
  11. mathematically

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