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numberness en · NOUN

Etymology

From number + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being a number.
    • Richard Spuler, From Here to There […] free-fallers falling less than freely into (predetermined?) places, confirming the grandness of grand, the heaviness of heavy, the truthfulness of lies, the numberness of numbers.
  2. (uncountable) Competence in working with numbers and arithmetic; numeracy.
    • Fluent reading and fluency in numberness are analogous. 2014, Steve Chinn, The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties, page 280:
  3. (uncountable) Cardinality.
    • It helps children to see that the numberness of a "set" can be represented by a numeral. 1966, Saturday Review, volume 49, page 73: