DETERMINATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does determinateness mean? 

• DETERMINATENESS (noun)
  The noun DETERMINATENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being predictable with great confidence

  Familiarity information: DETERMINATENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETERMINATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being predictable with great confidence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

definiteness; determinateness

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

predictability (the quality of being predictable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "determinateness"):

conclusiveness; decisiveness; finality (the quality of being final or definitely settled)

Derivation:

determinate (supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement)

determinate (precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause)

 Context examples 

On the tragic side were the Miss Bertrams, Henry Crawford, and Mr. Yates; on the comic, Tom Bertram, not quite alone, because it was evident that Mary Crawford's wishes, though politely kept back, inclined the same way: but his determinateness and his power seemed to make allies unnecessary; and, independent of this great irreconcilable difference, they wanted a piece containing very few characters in the whole, but every character first-rate, and three principal women.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)