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coextensiveness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being coextensive.

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  • noun The property of being coextensive.

Etymologies

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coextensive +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • We commonly call Architecture an Art, and it is so and so, therefore the name Art and this so and so are somehow connected to prove that connection to be "coextensiveness," we predicate one of the other and then simply convert the proposition, which is the proper test of any logical definition, or of any specific property.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • In his dual effort to mechanize man and to humanize technology, there was implicit a coextensiveness of the man-machine with the nascent reality of an industrial world, in which man was to be described at length not merely as himself

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • The fact of this coextensiveness must be ascertained by [Greek: nous], in other words, by the Inductive

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • This latter point, the coextensiveness of matter with created being, later on became a distinctive tenet of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • We have no warrant for pronouncing the identical coextensiveness of what man learns to know and what he is created to be.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

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