simultaneousness

Example Sentences

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He supposes that the coexistence spoken of in the axiom, of two things with the same third thing, means simultaneousness in time.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart

To reproduce in description by a succession of words the simultaneousness of so complex a chain of events, and in doing so to appear unbiassed throughout the exposition, goes fairly beyond my powers.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund

“Sensations, or other feelings being given,” writes J. S. Mill,405 “succession and simultaneousness are the two conditions to the alternative of which they are subjected by the nature of our faculties.”

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Harmony exists not in time, for the time-element in music is melody; nor does it exist in space, for the simultaneousness of tones is not one of extension or space.

From Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Finck, Henry Theophilus

The narrator threw all his powers of description into the simultaneousness of Sally's arrival at this point and the gentleman walking straight over the pier-edge.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend