positionalityn.

1925 W. P. Montague Ways of Knowing Postscript. 356 I do not understand how you differentiate the positionality of a spatio-temporal kind which you regard as requisite for existence from the more abstract kind of position expressed in such judgments as 2 + 2 = 4.

1963 Philos. Sci. 30 257 Temporal positionality is not the only kind of positionality possible; it is desirable to characterize positionality more generally.

1998 D. Bellos et al. tr. G. Ifrah Universal Hist. Numbers xiii. 148/1 Moreover, the path to the discovery of positionality had been laid out in the very earliest traces of Sumerian civilisation.

1966 Social Forces 45 208/2 Caplow has suggested a scheme for deriving behavioral concomitants of positionality within organizations. The units are statuses, interaction, valence,..and activity.

1968 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 37 24/2 (note) Westie has devised four separate distance scales which measure four kinds of social relationships: residential distance, positionality, physical distance and inter-personal social distance.

1986 A. Jefferson & D. Robey Mod. Lit. Theory (ed. 2) viii. 213 Kristeva's emphasis on marginality allows us to view this repression of the feminine in terms of positionality rather than of essences.

2000 C. Brunsdon Feminist, Housewife & Soap Opera iii. vii. 126 This account, in its contradictoriness, offers one very clear instance of specifically feminine positionality in relation to intellectual work.