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名詞

radicality (複数形 radicalities)

1. The quality of being radical; radicalness.
   • 2000, "Post-theory: New Directions in Criticism", Martin McQuillan, Graeme Macdonald, Robin Purves, Stephen Thomson, p. 5

     However, the radicality of political praxis and the radicality of Theory might not be of the same order.

2. (obsolete) Germinal principle; source; origination.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:

     there may be equivocal seeds and hermaphroditical principles, which contain the radicality and power of different forms