mathematicality
nounEtymology From mathematical + -ity.
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Rare The state of being mathematical or involving mathematics.
- To conceive of a photographic image as a measuring device is to insist on the mathematicality, calculability, and finally the 'computability' of the image-world.2004, Harun Farocki, Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-lines, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 197:
- By way of analogy, it would in theory also be possible to postulate a concept of a science whose universality and mathematicality are relative only.2007, Kevin Corrigan, John Douglas Turner, Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 138:
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Rare Skill at mathematics; numeracy.
- Many young Blacks suffer from numerophobia for cultural and historic reasons. The new world of the future is likely to require higher levels of mathematicality and a new numerophilia - a fascination with numbers.2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page VI:
- Given what is often thought to be the "mathematicality" of the Jews, their collective capacity for numeracy, I suppose this makes me an outlier.2021 April 21, Jenna Weissman Joselit, “People of the Math Book”, in Tablet Magazine, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022: