definiteness

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Noun
  • Those principles, along with historical analysis, will resolve a great deal of apparent under-determinacy.
    J. Joel Alicea, National Review, 3 May 2022
  • The iron determinacy of combustion; the vagaries of human capacity and choice.
    Longreads, Longreads, 9 May 2017
Noun
  • The goal here is not to inform or educate, to listen or process, to build or intellectualize but to win, to own, to dunk on, to break the opponent’s brain, to spawn an argument of such devastating definitiveness that the matter can be considered, once and for all, closed.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The next step is the dissolution of truth and the prioritisation of loyalty above decency.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Vader’s reveal to Luke about being the kid’s father is an all-time truth bomb, and is made better when compared to Luke’s visions of the man behind the mask.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • The franchise abandoned it in July 2020 amid much political correctness pressure.
    Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • Their energy must also move to higher-order tasks like strategy, design, correctness and scalability.
    Roby Baruch, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • If calibration is slow, manual, or inconsistent, the result is lower uptime, lower fidelity, and a less investable platform.
    Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • But the operations were done with pretty reasonable fidelity.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • The ubiquity and strictness of regulation has real business impacts.
    Francesca Cassidy, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • And there’s little strictness about ideological consistency.
    Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • If the Sun is high in the lunar sky during the flyby, there will be few shadows, and the crew will be looking for subtle variations in surface color and rightness.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This sense of rightness — imperfect, but clarifying — is what gout offers as diagnosis.
    Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Inspired by museum collections and Art Deco design, the geometry and exactness of bold shapes in earthy tones are captivating.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Definiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/definiteness. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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