Primehood

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being a prime number; primeness. rare, uncountable

    "Because it involves the addition of numbers defined in terms of multiplication, this problem is as hard to tackle as it is easy to phrase and grasp (as for the latter, it only takes one to master the concepts of evenness and primehood)."

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"Because it involves the addition of numbers defined in terms of multiplication, this problem is as hard to tackle as it is easy to phrase and grasp (as for the latter, it only takes one to master the concepts of evenness and primehood)."

Etymology

From prime + -hood.

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