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revolutionariness en · NOUN

Etymology

From revolutionary + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being revolutionary.
    • It also demonstrates the innovativeness and revolutionariness of Mallarme's approach which is here being put to work by Derrida. 2010, Jones Irwin, Derrida and the Writing of the Body, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 55:
    • His environment and mode of life may have aligned him with the old order politically; but none can deny the revolutionariness of his method, of his criticism, the boldness of his rejections. 1958, Christopher Hill, Puritanism & Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Century, Pimlico, published 2001, →ISBN:
    • The revolutionariness of St. Francis's individualistic approach is especially evident in the historical context within which it developed. 2012, Ivana Zagorac, “St. Francis of Assisi: Bioethics in European Middle Ages”, in Amir Muzur, Hans-Martin Sass, editors, Fritz Jahr and the Foundations of Global Bioethics: The Future of Integrative Bioethics, Lit, →ISBN, page 74:

Deriveds

counterrevolutionariness

Synonyms

revolutionarity