perplexiveness
English
editEtymology
editFrom perplexive + -ness.
Noun
editperplexiveness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The quality of being perplexing; perplexingness
- 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
- if the Perplexiveness of Imagination may hinder assent, we must not believe Mathematicall demonstration
References
edit- “perplexiveness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.