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twelveness en · NOUN

Etymology

From twelve + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The property of being twelve in number.
    • Even the proportions of everyday weights and measures were based on the natural twelveness evident in mathematics […] 1994, Michael S. Schneider, A beginner's guide to constructing the universe:
    • Or walk into a shop and you will see twelveness associated with whiteness and roundness and, I hope, freshness, in a box of eggs. 1932, Ernest Dimnet, What we live by:
    • The geometrical basis of materiality consists of the tetrahedron or 'fourness' of fire or light, the octahedrality of 'sixness' of the gaseousness of air, the icosahedrality or 'twelveness' of the liquidity of water, and the cubic 'eightness' of the solid earthiness. 1988, Keith Critchlow, “Forward”, in The Theology of Arithmetic, Phanes Press, pages 15-16: