Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ordinalism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: or-di-nal-ism
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state or quality of being ordinal.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Are the ideas of Ordinalism in Number, and of Superlativeness in Degree allied? The Metaphysical view, taken by itself, gives us but unsatisfactory evidence, whilst the Empirical view, taken by itself, does the same."

Etymology

From ordinal + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ordinal

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does ordinalism mean?: The state or quality of being ordinal.
Where does ordinalism come from?: From ordinal + -ism.

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