alphabeticalness
English
Etymology
alphabetical + -ness
Noun
alphabeticalness (uncountable)
- The state of being alphabetical.
- Synonym: alphabeticality
- 1868, Chaucer Society (London, England), Publications, page 95:
- The ABC's alphabeticalness doubtless had some attraction for Chaucer, independent of its subject.
- 1976, Open Letter:
- The alphabeticalness is important because it's simple and because the words a poet writes are things made of alphabet elements where vowels are the sounding spaces.
- 2017 December 4, Arne Zettersten; Viggo Hjornager Pedersen, Symposium on Lexicography VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Lexicography May 5–6, 1994 at the University of Copenhagen, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 192:
- There seems to be even a fourth reason for not adhering to strict alphabeticalness: 9.4. Keep combinations that are closely related in meaning together by entering them in the entry for the first element Thus, e.g. the OALD says in […]
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