issueness
nounEtymology From issue + -ness.
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The state, condition, or quality of being an issue or problem.
- If it really is an obstruction to the emergence of the issue, then there should be a negative association between levels of industrial influence in the fifty sample cities and the issueness of air pollution in those cities.1970, Marvin Surkin, Alan Wolfe, Caucus for a New Political Science (U.S.), An End to political science: the Caucus papers - Page 148
- These properties capture the 'issueness' of a social problem. If they were easily operationalized, a scale measuring issueness could be derived simply by adding the scores of an issue on the dimensions above.1999, Jan-Erik Lane, Svante O. Ersson, Politics and Society in Western Europe - Page 267:
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- Thus the "issueness" of an issue emerges as the joint effect of values and facts, interests and events, subjective and objective factors.1999, Malcolm Waters, Modernity: After modernity - Page 352: