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numericity

numericity noun: the quality of being numeric.

Noun

numericity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being numeric.
    • The use of number to model numericity itself raises the intriguing possibility that there might be systems of denumeration that are mathematical but not quantifactional, such as the one in use by the Daribi people of Papua New Guinea as late as the 1960s.2005, Mark S. Mosko, Frederick H. Damon, On the Order of Chaos, page 213

Origin of numericity

From numeric + -ity.

Questions about numericity

What does numericity mean?
Numericity means the quality of being numeric.
What part of speech is numericity?
Numericity is a noun.

Words near numericity in the dictionary

  1. numericise
  2. numericised
  3. numericising
  4. numericist
  5. numericists
  6. numericity
  7. numericize
  8. numericized
  9. numericizes
  10. numericizing
  11. numericlatural

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