Meaning of twelveness | Babel Free

Definitions

The property of being twelve in number.

uncountable

Examples

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

“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.”

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

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