What does seventeenness mean?
Seventeenness means (rare) The property of being seventeen..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) The property of being seventeen..
It was the first time in all the largesse of her youth that such a tone had assailed Zoe. The very seventeenness of her revolted; she dropped her attitude.
None of these descriptions seems to give you a clue to the intrinsic seventeenness of 17 – the unique feature which makes it the very number that it is.
Might not some language somewhere offer a seventeenness category that would create immediate recognition of that many items? Such a category seems unlikely, of course, and we might see it as excluded by capacity limitations on focal consciousness, limitations that would be far exceeded by a display of seventeen items.
Use seventeenness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Seventeenness means (rare) The property of being seventeen..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It was the first time in all the largesse of her youth that such a tone had assailed Zoe. The very seventeenness of her revolted; she dropped her attitude.
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