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Meaning of "incommensurateness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF INCOMMENSURATENESS

ˌɪnkəˈmɛnʃərɪtnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCOMMENSURATENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Incommensurateness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INCOMMENSURATENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of incommensurateness in the English dictionary

The definition of incommensurateness in the dictionary is the quality of being incommensurate.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCOMMENSURATENESS

airtightness · commensurateness · corporateness · decrepitness · definiteness · explicitness · exquisiteness · finiteness · inappropriateness · indefiniteness · innateness · intemerateness · irateness · mediateness · oblateness · preteriteness · secretness · straitness · up-to-dateness · watertightness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCOMMENSURATENESS

incommensurability · incommensurable · incommensurableness · incommensurably · incommensurate · incommensurately · incommiscible · incommode · incommodious · incommodiously · incommodiousness · incommodities · incommodity · incommunicability · incommunicable · incommunicableness · incommunicably · incommunicado · incommunicative · incommunicatively

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCOMMENSURATENESS

adhesiveness · appropriateness · attentiveness · attractiveness · awareness · awesomeness · brand awareness · business · closeness · competitiveness · completeness · cost-effectiveness · cuteness · effectiveness · hoarseness · likeness · oneness · responsiveness · self-awareness · soreness · uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of incommensurateness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «incommensurateness» into 25 languages

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incommensurateness
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inconmensurabilidad
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incommensurateness
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সামঞ্জস্যহীনতা
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incommensurateness
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Ketidaksamaan
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incommensurateness
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incommensurateness
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Incommensurateness
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incommensurateness
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incommensurateness
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अनैसर्गिकपणा
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incommensurateness
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incommensurateness
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Trends of use of incommensurateness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCOMMENSURATENESS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about incommensurateness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCOMMENSURATENESS»

Discover the use of incommensurateness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to incommensurateness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Companion to Relativism
That is to say, if you have incommensurateness but you don't have conflict, no hard problem arises. Such superficial “apples and oranges” incommensurateness means only that you sometimes cannot compare highly disparate values.
Steven D. Hales, 2011
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Turning Points in Solid-state, Materials and Surface State: ...
Incommensurateness in a solid inclusion compound can have important consequences for some physical properties of the material, including: (i) the distribution of guest molecule environments (with implications for issues such as host–guest ...
Kenneth D. M. Harris, Peter P. Edwards, Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain), 2008
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Practical Rationality and Preference: Essays for David Gauthier
In cases of equal goodness and cases of incommensurateness, rationality certainly demands that one make a choice. But how should one make it rationally ? This difficult question is raised equally by cases of equal goodness and cases of ...
Christopher W. Morris, Arthur Ripstein, 2007
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Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics
This is fun (talking insects) and it may also turn out to be useful to other people ( diverging tracks. people employing flying machines and submarines before they' ve been invented. etc.). I see no incommensurateness with other ordinal locations ...
Armen Marsoobian, Kathleen Wallace, Robert S. Corrington, 1991
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Forum on Crime and Society
What really triggers the explanation requirement is incommensurateness or disproportion that is unreasonable in the circumstances. Even where that threshold is reached, it is still the case that the slighter such incommensurateness or ...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2002
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Varieties of Ethical Reflection: New Directions for Ethics ...
Recall the magnanimous Aristotelian who was criticized by a Confucian, despite the mutual incommensurateness of their ethical languages. We can agree that ethical systems are plural, in other words, without insisting on judging people only ...
Michael Barnhart, 2002
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Aspects of King Lear
upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer', it is clear that the common idea of the incommensurateness of the suffering body to what it has to endure is conveyed not so much by citing the vulture, the wheel or the rack as by  ...
Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells, 1982
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We are All Close: Conversations with Israeli Writers
There is, then, a profound difference inherent in the heterogeneities of each mode of query in relation to others, expressed as the incommensurateness of any mode of validation from the standpoint of the others, manifested practically as the  ...
Haim Chertok, Stephen David Ross, 1989
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ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific ...
... of the presumption of innocence. It was dictated by necessity and went no further than necessary. The court's decision was not triggered by trifling incommensurateness or disproportion, but by incommensurateness or disproportion that is ...
OECD, 2010
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Metaphysical Aporia and Philosophical Heresy
To the contrary, if the infinite intellect cannot think God whole, without aporia and incommensurateness, then the finite intellect cannot do so either. Yet this is not a deficiency but a greater wisdom. Finiteness and inexhaustibility are inseparable ...
Stephen David Ross, 1989

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCOMMENSURATENESS»

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To be and not to have been: kill lists and poetry
The incommensurateness between the title's reference to the supposed “inhumanity” of drone warfare (I think drone warfare is humanity itself) ... «MobyLives, Nov 13»
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Belief is an emotion
Little did it matter that the earth was a vale of tears, of horrid sufferings, of incommensurateness, of torturous and humiliating daily pettiness, ... «News24, Jan 13»
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53: The Sycamore Kitchen's BLT Sandwich
Quinn and Karen Hatfield's newish casual place on La Brea, The Sycamore Kitchen, is an exercise in incommensurateness, albeit a very L.A. ... «LA Weekly, Sep 12»
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Eric X. Li's Globalization 2.0
And only in recognizing and respecting this incommensurateness can the convergence of interests among them be realized, and perhaps a ... «Huffington Post, Nov 11»
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Steven Millhauser's Ghost Stories
... devastating slow-fuse emotional tragedy — “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” rewritten with an exquisite attention to the incommensurateness of loss ... «New York Times, Sep 11»
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EDWARD HOPPER: CUBIST IN DISGUISE?
The incommensurateness -- or ironical commensurateness -- of the anonymous and banal modern environment and the human beings who ... «Artnet, Nov 06»
REFERENCE
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