Numericity

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being numeric. uncountable

    "The use of number to model numericity itself raises the intriguing possibility that there might be systems of denumeration that are mathematical but not quantifactional, such as the one in use by the Daribi people of Papua New Guinea as late as the 1960s."

Example

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"The use of number to model numericity itself raises the intriguing possibility that there might be systems of denumeration that are mathematical but not quantifactional, such as the one in use by the Daribi people of Papua New Guinea as late as the 1960s."

Etymology

From numeric + -ity.

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