twelveness

twelveness

English

Etymology

twelve +‎ -ness

Noun

twelveness (uncountable)

1. The property of being twelve in number.
   • 1932, Ernest Dimnet, What we live by

     Or walk into a shop and you will see twelveness associated with whiteness and roundness and, I hope, freshness, in a box of eggs.

   • 1988, Keith Critchlow, "Forward", The Theology of Arithmetic, Phanes Press, pages 15-16

     The geometrical basis of materiality consists of the tetrahedron or 'fourness' of fire or light, the octahedrality of 'sixness' of the gaseousness of air, the icosahedrality or 'twelveness' of the liquidity of water, and the cubic 'eightness' of the solid earthiness.

   • 1994, Michael S. Schneider, A beginner's guide to constructing the universe

     Even the proportions of everyday weights and measures were based on the natural twelveness evident in mathematics […]