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
With daring definiteness, he added: "There are animals and birds in Heaven as well as human beings and angels."
From Time Magazine Archive
The language being no longer familiar in the same sense as formerly, greater definiteness of expression became necessary in the written style.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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