categoricalness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From categorical + -ness.
Noun[edit]
categoricalness (uncountable)
- The quality of being categorical, absolute, or positive.
- 1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery., London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 57–58:
- But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.