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meantness

meantness noun: the state or quality of being meant or intended.

Noun

meantness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being meant or intended.
    • Mere meantness as the correlate of the relation between judging and the proposition marks the situation in which such meantness has yet to be confirmed or denied.2012, Marcus Brainard, Belief and Its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I

Origin of meantness

From meant + -ness.

Questions about meantness

What does meantness mean?
Meantness means the state or quality of being meant or intended.
What part of speech is meantness?
Meantness is a noun.

Words near meantness in the dictionary

  1. meant to say
  2. meant well
  3. meantest
  4. meantime
  5. meantimes
  6. meantness
  7. meantone
  8. meantones
  9. meanwhile
  10. meanwhile garden
  11. meanwhile site

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