Definition of "determinateness"

determinateness

noun
uncountable
1. The quality or state of being determinate.
  Quotations
  […] his determinateness and his power, seemed to make allies unnecessary; […]
  1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], page 272
  It cannot be expected that our classifications should vie in accuracy and determinateness with those of natural science.
  1833, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 20
  The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
  1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles’.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], section IV, page 445
  Douglas Gale […] made me rethink the question of the determinateness of the price level.
  1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page xi