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English
Etymology
ten + -ness
Noun
tenness (uncountable)
- (very rare) The property of being ten in number.
1958 May, Carolyn J. Ingham, Joseph N. Payne, “An eighth-grade unit on number systems”, in The Mathematics Teacher, volume 51, number 5, page 392:They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.
1995, V. P. Bhatta, Gadādhara's Śaktivāda: theory of expressive power of words, volume 2:[…] conveys speaker's expectation referring to the knowledge of the contextual predicate (presence of the pots) which describes the delimitorship of the delimiting property of the subjectness of the subject (the tenness of the pots), delimited by the property such as the tenness-ness, and occurring in an area lesser than the area of the property of the numberness in general […]
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
tenness n (definite singular tenness, indefinite plural -, definite plural)
- tennessine
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
tenness n (plural tenness)
- tennessine
Swedish
Noun
tenness n
- tennessine