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relativeness

American  
[rel-uh-tiv-nis] / ˈrɛl ə tɪv nɪs /

noun

  1. the state or fact of being relative.


Etymology

Origin of relativeness

First recorded in 1665–75; relative + -ness

Example Sentences

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Reasoning is the art of fixing the relativeness of things.

From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard

There is a praiseworthy relativeness and life in the morality of our best old divines.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

This is the art of calculating the differences existing between each thing, by determining the relativeness of their respective proportions.

From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard

The relativeness of sensation is then developed at length, and for a moment the definition appears to be accepted.

From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin

It is by abstracting reckless contingencies, and by relying only upon the relativeness of facts, that we can succeed in discovering the truth that there are too many representations as to these facts.

From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard

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