incommensurableness

English

Etymology

incommensurable +‎ -ness

Noun

incommensurableness (uncountable)

1. (rare) Incommensurability.
   • 1865, John Spare, The Differential Calculus, Boston: Bradley, Dayton & Co., page 175:

     In view of this incommensurableness of most numbers and their respective logarithms, only an approximate definition can be given of a logarithm in general.

   • 1907, chapter 9, in J. Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson, transl., Naturalism And Religion:

     The incommensurableness and mystery of the world, which are, perhaps, even more necessary to the very life of religion than the right to regard it teleologically, reassert themselves afresh in the all-too-comprehensible and mathematically-formulated world.

   • 1984, William Ernest Hocking, “Action and Certainty”, in John Dewey: The later works, 1925-1953, Volume 5, →ISBN, page 466:

     The non-correspondence between meaning and working begins in the process of conception, as incommensurableness between objects and interests.

References

• “incommensurableness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.