Numberness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being a number. uncountable

    "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. 2
    Competence in working with numbers and arithmetic; numeracy. uncountable

    "Fluent reading and fluency in numberness are analogous."

  3. 3
    Cardinality. uncountable

    "It helps children to see that the numberness of a "set" can be represented by a numeral."

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"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."

Etymology

From number + -ness.

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