percentageness

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Etymology

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From percentage + -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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percentageness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a percentage.
    • 1972, United States Postal Service, Action of the Governors Under 39 U.S.C. Section 3625 and Supporting Record in the Matter of Postal Rate and Fee Increases, 1971: Pocket No. R71-1 Before the Postal Rate Commission[1], United States Government Publishing Office:
      Mr. SCHWARTZ: That is right, the matetial that is in the record, we, by that percentageness, extrapolated to 1972.
    • 2004 March 27, David Cohen, “body fat pctage”, in misc.fitness.weights[2] (Usenet):
      Still too much. He needs to achieve negative bodyfat percentageness (percentity?).