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tenness

tenness noun: the property of being ten in number.

Noun

tenness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The property of being ten in number.
    • They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.1958 May, Carolyn J. Ingham, Joseph N. Payne, “An eighth-grade unit on number systems”, in The Mathematics Teacher, volume 51, number 5, page 392
    • […] conveys speaker's expectation referring to the knowledge of the contextual predicate (presence of the pots) which describes the delimitorship of the delimiting property of the subjectness of the subject (the tenness of the pots), delimited by the property such as the tenness-ness, and occurring...1995, V. P. Bhatta, Gadādhara's Śaktivāda: theory of expressive power of words, volume 2

Origin of tenness

From ten + -ness.

Questions about tenness

What does tenness mean?
Tenness means the property of being ten in number.
What part of speech is tenness?
Tenness is a noun.

Words near tenness in the dictionary

  1. Tennent
  2. tenner
  3. tenners
  4. Tennes
  5. tennesi
  6. tenness
  7. Tennessean
  8. Tennesseans
  9. Tennessee
  10. Tennessee quick step
  11. Tennessee rifle

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