issueness

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English

Etymology

From issue +‎ -ness.

Noun

issueness (uncountable)

  1. The state, condition, or quality of being an issue or problem.
    • 1970, Marvin Surkin, Alan Wolfe, Caucus for a New Political Science (U.S.), An End to political science: the Caucus papers - Page 148:
      If it really is an obstruction to the emergence of the issue, then there should be a negative association between levels of industrial influence in the fifty sample cities and the issueness of air pollution in those cities.
    • 1999, Jan-Erik Lane, Svante O. Ersson, Politics and Society in Western Europe - Page 267:
      These properties capture the 'issueness' of a social problem. If they were easily operationalized, a scale measuring issueness could be derived simply by adding the scores of an issue on the dimensions above.
    • 1999, Malcolm Waters, Modernity: After modernity - Page 352:
      Thus the "issueness" of an issue emerges as the joint effect of values and facts, interests and events, subjective and objective factors.