Seventeenness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Seventeenness is a noun meaning (rare) The property of being seventeen.
Meaning
(rare) The property of being seventeen.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include thirteenness, teenageness, sevenness, teenagership, rareness, teenagerdom.
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