| 释义 |
meaningfulness|ˈmiːnɪŋfʊlnɪs|
[f. meaningful a. + -ness.]
The fact or quality of being meaningful.
1919R. H. Fisher Outside of Inside 105 In mystical trance he discerned the meaningfulness of the third heaven 1922J. Y. Simpson Man & Attainment of Immortality xiv. 320 The exquisite sensitivity of their minds to the meaningfulness of his language. 1935Mind XLIV. 426 ‘Redness’ is a concept which has application in experience, and this is all that is required for meaningfulness. 1940W. V. Quine Math. Logic iii. 147 The meaningfulness of an expression—the eligibility of an expression to occur in statements at all, true or false—is a matter over which we can profitably maintain control. 1941A. D. Woozley in T. Reid Ess. p. xxix, He is far more interested in..universals as related to words—i.e. in the meaningfulness of language. 1951Trans. Philol. Soc. 43 Here also the fundamental argument is meaningfulness. 1953Essays in Crit. III. 107 Verification of meaningfulness in literature must lie, in the last analysis, outside literature. 1959Cambr. Rev. 30 May 567/2 Whether or not the verifiability criterion is a criterion of the meaningfulness of a statement or of the scientific character of a statement, the defects which it has in either case can be reproduced quid pro quo for the falsifiability criterion. 1959H. Gardner Business of Crit. ii. iii. 131 Our first step towards making it [sc. a play or poem] meaningful to us is to be aware of the meaningfulness of the images to men of its own day. 1971Human World Nov. 40 The question of the meaningfulness of religious utterances. |