definiteness

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That definiteness offers an appealing sense of certainty to the weary and existentially burned-out person living through this down period between the Trump era, COVID, and whatever’s next.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2021

The writer Nat Hentoff saw his playing as having “strength and definiteness of attack, vigorous pulsation and organic logic”.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2016

“The master key consists of 17 principles, the first of which is definiteness of purpose,” and so on.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2012

A large fortune awaits the person who can show the average publisher with any definiteness the surest means of bringing a book to public attention.

From Time Magazine Archive

But these desires did not, as early as in the case of fear, give rise to any emotional reaction possessing the constancy, definiteness, and poignancy of fear.

From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by Leuba, James H. (James Henry)