meaningfulnessn.
/ˈmiːnɪŋf(ᵿ)lnəs/, U.S. /ˈminɪŋfəlnəs/ The fact or quality of being meaningful.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun]
significancy1577
significance1585
expressiveness1655
meaningness1753
pregnancy1839
ideality1845
meaningfulness1904
expressivity1944
1904 E. A. Singer in Philos. Rev. 13 272 Such objections to the meaningfulness of the mechanical image as turn on the difficulties of defining mass, length, time, and their combinations, cannot be discussed in this connection.
1935 Mind 44 426 ‘Redness’ is a concept which has application in experience, and this is all that is required for meaningfulness.
1956 H. Gardner Limits Lit. Crit. iii. 43 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.
1988 Health Promotion III. 18/1 The validity of such scales is the essential element of their meaningfulness as indicators.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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