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numberness

numberness noun: the quality of being a number.

Noun

numberness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a number.
    • Richard Spuler, From Here to There
      […] free-fallers falling less than freely into (predetermined?) places, confirming the grandness of grand, the heaviness of heavy, the truthfulness of lies, the numberness of numbers.
  2. Competence in working with numbers and arithmetic; numeracy.
    • Fluent reading and fluency in numberness are analogous.2014, Steve Chinn, The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties, page 280
  3. Cardinality.
    • It helps children to see that the numberness of a "set" can be represented by a numeral.1966, Saturday Review, volume 49, page 73

Origin of numberness

From number + -ness.

Questions about numberness

What does numberness mean?
Numberness means the quality of being a number.
What part of speech is numberness?
Numberness is a noun.

Words near numberness in the dictionary

  1. numberless
  2. numberlessly
  3. numberlessness
  4. numberlike
  5. numberly
  6. numberness
  7. numberous
  8. numberplate
  9. numberplates
  10. numbers
  11. numbers game

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