soundiness

Noun

soundiness (uncountable)

1. A state of being mostly sound; the condition of being rigorously sound in all but some well-defined areas; a best approximation of soundness in an environment where absolute soundness or proof of soundness is not feasible.
   • Soundiness is in fact what is meant in many papers that claim to describe a sound analysis.2015 February, Benjamin Livshits, Manu Sridharan, Yannis Smaragdakis, Ondřej Lhotȧk, J. Nelson Amaral, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Samuel Z. Guyer, Uday P. Khedker, Anders Møller, Dimitrios Vardoulakis, “In...
   • While this lack of soundness and precision can be viewed as a deficiency, we argue that instead – in the spirit of “soundiness” [23] – it is a strength.2016 February, Ahmet Salih Buyukkayhan, Kaan Onarlioglu, William K Robertson, Engin Kirda, “CrossFire: An Analysis of Firefox Extension-Reuse Vulnerabilities”, in Proceedings of the ISOC Network and...
2. The quality that allows something to be sensed as sound.
   • But it will assert that the sensible quality of sounding--the soundiness of sound--cannot be reduced to the properties of sound-waves that physicists take professional notice of.1968, D.M. Armstrong, “The secondary qualities: An essay in the classification of theories”, in Australasian journal of philosophy, volume 46, number 3
   • Thus, the "soundiness" of sound is to be identified with a suitable wave structure of a suitable medium.2001, Michael J. Loux -, Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, →ISBN, page 87