radicality
nounEtymology From radical + -ity.
1
The quality of being radical; radicalness.
- However, the radicality of political praxis and the radicality of Theory might not be of the same order.2000, "Post-theory: New Directions in Criticism", Martin McQuillan, Graeme Macdonald, Robin Purves, Stephen Thomson, p. 5
2
Obsolete Germinal principle; source; origination.
- there may be equivocal seeds and hermaphroditical principles, which contain the radicality and power of different forms1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
3
Obsolete Radicalness; relation to root in essential nature or principle.
- Synonyms
- radicalness