determinate
adjective
having defined limits; definite.
determinateness
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a word derived from
determinate.
Example Sentences
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So that it would have no value whatsoever, it could not even be grasped by thought in its particular determinateness, if it were not presented as the natural form of that precise thought.
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
The man may become indifferent about the ethical determinateness of his deeds.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
In the determinateness of the real, they represent that which music expresses in the universality of mere form.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
Natural individuality appearing as national determinateness was still acknowledged, but was deprived of its abstract isolation.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
