Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being relative or having relation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.

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  • noun The state or condition of being relative; relativity.

Etymologies

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relative +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • A disciple, a follower, a leader, a speaker, a person of untold but defined absoluteness and relativeness.

    Jay's Journal Dr. Beatrice Sparks 2010

  • PALMIERI: Well, I think that -- I think that what Lynn is saying is right in terms of the relativeness of his crime.

    CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2009 2009

  • Such species, therefore, are in a different category to those forms to which the traditional rights were ascribed, and to claim for these new categories these same rights is to ignore the fact of their essential relativeness of economic value.

    Thesis and Antithesis I: Private Property in a Cultural Civilization 2008

  • The relativeness of sensation is then developed at length, and for a moment the definition appears to be accepted.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • Divorced parents, odd birthday gifts from relativeness, hanging out with your friend, eco-sabatage, and writing fantasy stories--it's all here.

    Archive 2006-09-01 David S. Carter 2006

  • Divorced parents, odd birthday gifts from relativeness, hanging out with your friend, eco-sabatage, and writing fantasy stories--it's all here.

    Minicomics Monday David S. Carter 2006

  • We certainly enjoyed your piece on equivalence and relativeness.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Let's slide the map down Craig (ph), and give some relativeness to everything.

    CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004 2004

  • We certainly enjoyed your piece on equivalence and relativeness.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • I remarked that the subjective nature of hatred as in vision itself, did not prevent the object possessing real qualities or defects and in no way caused reality to disappear in a pure “relativeness”.

    Time Regained 2003

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