Subjunctiveness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being subjunctive. uncountable
"The first suggestion resulting is the obvious and simple but profitable one that nothing is achieved by schools unless some connection is influenced, that we cannot assume change in any pupil unless bonds have been made or broken so as to cause him to respond as he did not before. The connection may be one leading only to an attitude, say of interest or enjoyment. […] It may lead from some elusive element or feature of a situation, such as the “place-value” of a number or the subjunctiveness of a subjunctive, to some general element or feature of many responses, such as open-mindedness, or cheerfulness, or readiness to do what one accepts as right."
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More examples"The first suggestion resulting is the obvious and simple but profitable one that nothing is achieved by schools unless some connection is influenced, that we cannot assume change in any pupil unless bonds have been made or broken so as to cause him to respond as he did not before. The connection may be one leading only to an attitude, say of interest or enjoyment. […] It may lead from some elusive element or feature of a situation, such as the “place-value” of a number or the subjunctiveness of a subjunctive, to some general element or feature of many responses, such as open-mindedness, or cheerfulness, or readiness to do what one accepts as right."
Etymology
From subjunctive + -ness.
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