ordinalism

English

Etymology

ordinal +‎ -ism

Noun

ordinalism (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being ordinal.
   • 1841, Robert Gordon Latham, The English Language:

     Are the ideas of Ordinalism in Number, and of Superlativeness in Degree allied? The Metaphysical view, taken by itself, gives us but unsatisfactory evidence, whilst the Empirical view, taken by itself, does the same.

References

“ordinalism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.