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absoluteness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun absoluteness has 2 senses
- absoluteness(n = noun.attribute) starkness, utterness - the quality of being complete or utter or extreme; "the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections" is a kind of bound, boundary, limit
- absoluteness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality of being absolute; "the absoluteness of the pope's decree could not be challenged" is a kind of changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness
Derived forms adjective absolute1, adjective absolute5, adjective absolute2, adjective absolute3, adjective absolute4
CIDE DICTIONARY
absoluteness, n.
The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
absoluteness
Authority
N authority, influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction, right, direction, government, divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness, absoluteness, absolutism, despotism, jus nocendi, jus divinum, mastery, mastership, masterdom, dictation, control, hold, grasp, grip, gripe, reach, iron sway, fangs, clutches, talons, rod of empire, commission, deputy, permission, at the head, dominant, paramount, supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential, arbitrary, compulsory, stringent, at one's command, in one's power, in one's grasp, under control, in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi, in virtue of, under the auspices of, in the hands of, at one's pleasure, by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen, ex mero motu, ex cathedra, from the chair, the gray mare the better horse, every inch a king.
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