ABSOLUTENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does absoluteness mean? 

• ABSOLUTENESS (noun)
  The noun ABSOLUTENESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being complete or utter or extreme

2. the quality of being absolute

  Familiarity information: ABSOLUTENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSOLUTENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being complete or utter or extreme

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

absoluteness; starkness; utterness

Context example:

the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections

Hypernyms ("absoluteness" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; limit (the greatest possible degree of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being absolute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the absoluteness of the pope's decree could not be challenged

Hypernyms ("absoluteness" is a kind of...):

changelessness; unchangeability; unchangeableness; unchangingness (the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged)

Derivation:

absolute (perfect or complete or pure)

absolute (not capable of being violated or infringed)

absolute (complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers)

absolute (not limited by law)

absolute (expressing finality with no implication of possible change)