soundiness en · NOUN
Etymology
From soundy + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A state of being mostly sound; the condition of being rigorously sound in all but some well-defined areas; a best approximation of soundness in an environment where absolute soundness or proof of soundness is not feasible.
Soundiness is in fact what is meant in many papers that claim to describe a sound analysis.
2015 February, Benjamin Livshits, Manu Sridharan, Yannis Smaragdakis, Ondřej Lhotȧk, J. Nelson Amaral, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Samuel Z. Guyer, Uday P. Khedker, Anders Møller, Dimitrios Vardoulakis, “In defense of soundiness: a manifesto”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 58, number 2:JayHorn is implemented in the spirit of soundiness [14].
2016, Swarat Chaudhuri, Azadeh Farzan, Computer Aided Verification: 28th International Conference, CAV 2016, →ISBN:While this lack of soundness and precision can be viewed as a deficiency, we argue that instead – in the spirit of “soundiness” [23] – it is a strength.
2016 February, Ahmet Salih Buyukkayhan, Kaan Onarlioglu, William K Robertson, Engin Kirda, “CrossFire: An Analysis of Firefox Extension-Reuse Vulnerabilities”, in Proceedings of the ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS):
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(uncountable) The quality that allows something to be sensed as sound.
Thus, the "soundiness" of sound is to be identified with a suitable wave structure of a suitable medium.
2001, Michael J. Loux -, Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, →ISBN, page 87:But it will assert that the sensible quality of sounding--the soundiness of sound--cannot be reduced to the properties of sound-waves that physicists take professional notice of.
1968, D.M. Armstrong, “The secondary qualities: An essay in the classification of theories”, in Australasian journal of philosophy, volume 46, number 3: