multeity
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of multeity
C19: from Latin multus many, perhaps formed by analogy with haecceity
Example Sentences
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It confounded, I say, the multeity below intellect, that is, unintelligible from defect of the subject, with the absolute identity above all intellect, that is, transcending comprehension by the plenitude of its excellence.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
This unity in multeity I have elsewhere stated as the principle of beauty.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
In the state a power or agency must never appear and act as a formless, inorganic shape, i.e. basing itself on the principle of multeity and mere numbers.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
The particles themselves must have an interior and gravitative being, and the multeity must be a removable or at least suspensible accident.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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