basicnessn.

1857 tr. F. Margueritte in Chemist New Ser. 4 218 The remarkable work of Mr. Graham on phosphates, and the impossibility of isolating in an anhydrous state, the greater part of the acids, have given great likelihood to the basicness of water.

1930 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. & Amer. Law Reg. 78 1044 The book deals with matters which, though assumedly implicit in judicial doctrine, have by their very basicness escaped notice in the law's conscious fabrication.

1961 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 61 180 The basicness of certain concepts also shows itself in a small way in practice.

1985 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 30 3 Hawkins..lists greater frequency of occurrence as at least a necessary condition for basicness.

2003 Nature 11 Dec. 607/2 Basic concepts have nothing interesting in common except their basicness—basic concepts are boring.