DEFINITENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does definiteness mean? 

• DEFINITENESS (noun)
  The noun DEFINITENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being predictable with great confidence

  Familiarity information: DEFINITENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFINITENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being predictable with great confidence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

definiteness; determinateness

Hypernyms ("definiteness" is a kind of...):

predictability (the quality of being predictable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "definiteness"):

conclusiveness; decisiveness; finality (the quality of being final or definitely settled)

Derivation:

definite (known for certain)

 Context examples 

But as he watched it grow in definiteness he saw that it was a coral reef smoking in the white Pacific surges.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)