Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being logical.

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  • noun The quality of being logical.

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  • noun The quality of being logical.

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  • noun correct and valid reasoning

Etymologies

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logical +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I didn't see the logicalness in him turning his money in, while his family was starving.

    CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2006 2006

  • Maria Ivanovna, it was a circle which, for me, had a wholly novel and attractive character of logicalness mingled with simplicity and refinement.

    Youth 2003

  • He was entirely unaffected in his literary work, and everything that he wrote down to the last days of his life is marked by his characteristic logicalness and force.

    Reminiscences of Tolstoy Tolstoy, Ilya, graf 1914

  • He was entirely unaffected in his literary work, and everything that he wrote down to the last days of his life is marked by his characteristic logicalness and force.

    Reminiscences of Tolstoy 1914

  • "_Whatever is in the sermon must be in the preacher first; clearness, logicalness, vivacity, earnestness, sweetness, and light, must be personal qualities in him before they are qualities of thought and language in what he utters to his people. _"

    Model Speeches for Practise Grenville Kleiser 1910

  • Which ideal simplicity and logicalness has become such a fish-bone stuck in our throats.

    Fantasia of the Unconscious 1907

  • He was entirely unaffected in his literary work, and everything that he wrote down to the last days of his life is marked by his characteristic logicalness and force.

    Reminiscences of Tolstoy Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi 1899

  • Whenever men have been the victims of logicalness they have been wrong.

    Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892

  • Maria Ivanovna, it was a circle which, for me, had a wholly novel and attractive character of logicalness mingled with simplicity and refinement.

    Youth Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • And I'm always up for different experiences that can only be created, however, when we analyze anime, I have used "meaning" to be defined as its "physics" or "mathematics" - its inherent logicalness due to its location within wholeness.

    THAT Animeblog 2008

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