Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Composite structure or make-up; composite character or quality.

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  • noun The state or quality of being composite.

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  • noun the property of being a composite number

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Examples

  • Hence when we say that Divinity, or life, or anything of this kind is in God, the compositeness belongs to the way in which our intellect understands, and not at all to that of which we speak.

    Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954

  • They have the compositeness which necessitates the difference between a subject and its nature.

    Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954

  • Much more than in Genesis, and even more than in Exodus have J and E been welded together in Numbers -- so closely, indeed, that it is usually all but impossible to distinguish them with certainty; but, here, as in Exodus, there are occasional proofs of compositeness.

    Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen

  • It is this generic quality and compositeness of the purpose of the individual and of the spirit of society that obscures the meaning of history and often makes individual lives so enigmatical, and which also makes these purposes of individuals and nations so persistent, sometimes so terribly forceful and insatiable.

    The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History G.E. Partridge

  • For 'fa' says the same thing as '(dx).fx. x = a' Wherever there is compositeness, argument and function are present, and where these are present, we already have all the logical constants.

    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein 1920

  • "We hope it is, and that is why we lay stress upon the compositeness of our settlement," said Mrs. Carroll.

    A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903

  • Cohesiveness in such a garment means that its wearer may be an original genius: compositeness may mean that he has to economize, like us.

    Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

  • And as, after noting the Celtic Pindarism or power of style present in our poetry, we noted the German flatness coming in in our hymns, and found here a proof of our compositeness of nature; so, after noting the Celtic Titanism or power of rebellious passion in our poetry, we may also note the Germanic patience and reasonableness in it, and get in this way a second proof how mixed a spirit we have.

    Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold 1855

  • Well, actually, there exists a framework in which the previous paragraph is exactly false: compositeness and technicolor.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • These problems - the cosmological constant and the compositeness - have nothing to do with each other.

    The Reference Frame 2010

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