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Definition of "incommensurateness" []

  • The state of being incommensurate. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "incommensurateness" in a sentence
  • "And only in recognizing and respecting this incommensurateness can the convergence of interests among them be realized, and perhaps a more peaceful world order along with it."
  • ""Odds; a noun substantive, from the adjective odd." and he defines its meaning as "inequality," or incommensurateness."
  • "A struggle of jarring impulses; a mysterious division between the injunctions of the mind and the elections of the will; and the utter incommensurateness and the unsatisfying qualities of the things around us, that yet are the only objects which our senses discover or our appetites require us to pursue; these facts suggest that the riddle of fortune and circumstance is but a form of the riddle of man, and that the solution of both problems lies in the acknowledgement that the soul of man, as the subject of mind and will, possesses a principle of permanence and is destined to endure."