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mathematicality

noun

Etymology

From mathematical + -ity.

  1. derived from mathēmaticālis
  2. inherited from mathematicalle
  3. suffixed as mathematicality — “mathematical + -ity”

Definitions

  1. The state of being mathematical or involving mathematics.

    • To conceive of a photographic image as a measuring device is to insist on the mathematicality, calculability, and finally the 'computability' of the image-world.
    • By way of analogy, it would in theory also be possible to postulate a concept of a science whose universality and mathematicality are relative only.

  2. Skill at mathematics

    Skill at mathematics; numeracy.

    • Many young Blacks suffer from numerophobia for cultural and historic reasons. The new world of the future is likely to require higher levels of mathematicality and a new numerophilia - a fascination with numbers.
    • Given what is often thought to be the "mathematicality" of the Jews, their collective capacity for numeracy, I suppose this makes me an outlier.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mathematicality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA