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ˈtransitiveness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being transitive; in quot. 1845, transitoriness.
1845J. H. Newman Ess. Developm. 71 A belief in the transitiveness of worldly goods. 1850A. de Morgan in Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. (1856) IX. i. 104 The first [copular condition] is what I shall call transitiveness. 1903B. Russell Princ. Math. xxvi. 218 Relations may be divided into four classes, according as they do or do not possess either of two attributes, transitiveness and symmetry. 1955A. N. Prior Formal Logic iii. i. 220 It is as if one presented a study of transitiveness under the guise of a ‘logic’ of the relation of ancestorhood. |