mathematicalness

Noun

mathematicalness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being mathematical.
   • For there being no Specifical Difference (at leaſt ſo far as I can apprehend) among the Souls that are allotted tor the actuating Humane Bodies, it is very probable that all the Diverſity, either of the Theorical or Mechanical Parts of one Man from another, is Primarily to be reſolv’d into the...1698, [Robert Ferguson], A View of an Ecclesiastick in His Socks ⁊ Buskins: or, A Just Reprimand Given to Mr. Alsop, for His Foppish, Pedantick, Detractive and Petulant Way of Writing, London: […]...
   • Even Mr. Mill, whose general remarks on probability are clear and sensible, and not tainted in an extraordinary degree with mathematicalness (to coin a new word), cannot quite keep clear of such illustrations. […] The great vice of the doctrine of probability is what we have previously called its...1866, “Art[icle] I.—Probability and Social Science.”, in Meliora: A Quarterly Review of Social Science in Its Ethical, Economical, Political, and Ameliorative Aspects, volume IX, number 36, London...

   Synonyms:

   mathematicality, mathematicity