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manifoldness

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The quality of being manifold, diversity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 1579, Isaac RABBOTENU (pseud. [i.e. Philips van Marnix, Heer van St. Aldegonde.]), The Bee Hive of the Romishe Churche. Wherein the Authour (Isaac Rabbotenu) a Zealous Protestant, Under the Person of a Superstitious Papist, Doth So Driely Refell the Grose Opinions of Popery, and So Divinely Defend the Articles of Christianitie, that ... There is Not a Booke to be Founde ... Sweeter for Thy Comforte. [In Answer to G. Hervet's “Missive ... Aen de Verdoolde Van Den Christen Geloove.”] Translated Out of Dutch Into Englisshe by George Gilpin the Elder. MS. Notes. B.L. [...] this most profitable and true christian worke : which though by reason of the manifoldnesse of the matter it be wearisome to reade [...]

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noun

Meaning 2

multiplicity

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences

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noun

Meaning 3

A generalized concept of magnitude.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences

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History

Etymology

From manifold + -ness.

Across languages

Translations

9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: moninaisuus — quality
  • German: Mannigfaltigkeit — quality
  • Polish: rozmaitość — quality
  • Polish: różnorodność — quality
  • Finnish: monistoisuus — math: multiplicity
  • Polish: wielorakość — math: multiplicity
  • Polish: mnogość — math: multiplicity
  • Finnish: monistoisuus — math: magnitude
  • Polish: wielkość — math: magnitude