Dictionary

manifoldness en · NOUN

Etymology

From manifold + -ness.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being manifold, diversity.
   • 1579, Isaac RABBOTENU (pseud. [i.e. Philips van Marnix, Heer van St. Aldegonde.]), The Bee Hive of the Romishe Churche. Wherein the Authour (Isaac Rabbotenu) a Zealous Protestant, Under the Person of a Superstitious Papist, Doth So Driely Refell the Grose Opinions of Popery, and So Divinely Defend the Articles of Christianitie, that ... There is Not a Booke to be Founde ... Sweeter for Thy Comforte. [In Answer to G. Hervet's “Missive ... Aen de Verdoolde Van Den Christen Geloove.”] Translated Out of Dutch Into Englisshe by George Gilpin the Elder. MS. Notes. B.L. […] this most profitable and true christian worke : which though by reason of the manifoldnesse of the matter it be wearisome to reade […]
2. (countable, uncountable) multiplicity
3. (countable, uncountable) A generalized concept of magnitude.

Forms

Synonyms

nonunity · multipleness (quality of being manifold)

Translations (9)

fi moninaisuus (quality) · pl mnogość (math: multiplicity) · pl wielkość (math: magnitude) · pl rozmaitość (quality) · pl wielorakość (math: multiplicity) · pl różnorodność (quality) · de Mannigfaltigkeit (quality) · fi monistoisuus (math: multiplicity) · fi monistoisuus (math: magnitude)