ravenness

English

Etymology

From raven +‎ -ness.

Noun

ravenness (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The quality of being a raven.
    • 1974, Mary B. Hesse, The Structure of Scientific Inference, page 160:
      Not only are shoes and ravens not exchangeable, but it is to say the least questionable whether we should regard ravenness as positively relevant to blackness on the evidence of the white shoe.

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