relativeness

[ rel-uh-tiv-nis ]

noun

1. the state or fact of being relative.

Word History and Origins

Origin of relativeness¹

First recorded in 1665–75; relative + -ness

Example Sentences

But researchers suggest that the relativeness completeness of these fossils, not their immense size, is what matters most.

From Nature

Hence his peculiar notion of immortality; hence his view as to the mere relativeness of the terms right and wrong, good and bad, and the like; and hence also his resolute inculcation of the doctrine, so unpalatable to his countrymen, that men ought to direct their thoughts and efforts to the actual and the outward.

From Project Gutenberg

In the strange relativeness, reciprocalness, and transmittedness, between the long-dead father's portrait, and the living daughter's face, Pierre might have seemed to see reflected to him, by visible and uncontradictable symbols, the tyranny of Time and Fate.

From Project Gutenberg

Nathan Matthews was destined later to learn that in an Addicks edifice there are secret trap-doors and concealed passageways available for quick escape in emergency, and that the term "absolutely assured" is of relative value when used in high finance, with Addicks to interpret the relativeness.

From Project Gutenberg

It was indeed a daring thing the author proposed to himself to do, and assuredly no man could have essayed it who had not consciously united to an unfailing and unshrinking insight, a relativeness of mind such as right-hearted people might approve.

From Project Gutenberg