perplexiveness

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English

Etymology

From perplexive +‎ -ness.

Noun

perplexiveness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being perplexing; perplexingness
    • 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: J Flesher, for William Morden , →OCLC:
      if the Perplexiveness of Imagination may hinder assent, we must not believe Mathematicall demonstration

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