relativenessn.

1673 H. More App. Antidote Idolatry xxvi. 31 Since this Relative Latria (because of its Relativeness) is incompetible to God.

1769 G. Arnaud Plain Method curing Disorders Bladder (ed. 3) xiv. 145 It was these reasons that induced me to give a narrative of some cases, relative to the doctrine..and where relativeness will obviously appear, by means of the method I have observed, [etc.].

1777 tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Let. in Compl. Wks. IV. xliv. 79 I should be glad to know if there be any relativeness between that business, and the Sorbonne affair.

1852 H. Melville Pierre xii. iii. 268 The strange relativeness, reciprocalness, and transmittedness, between the long-dead father's portrait, and the living daughter's face.

1886 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 7 444 For a later period..the expression ‘dialect’ is one of peculiar relativeness.

1915 Philos. Rev. 24 154 Some truths..are explicitly or implicitly acknowledged to be absolute, and are considered to be a constant condition of the relativeness of other truths.

1949 R. M. French tr. N. Berdyaev Divine & Human i. 19 Historicity indicates relativeness and limitation.

2000 Family Relations 49 166/1 These discussions help parents see the relativeness of their own teenager's situation.