definitiveness

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The sense of definitiveness that recorded evidence brings is left over from a time before cellphones, when this material was hard to come by, so we thought of it as a special and incontrovertible resource.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2021

I had known that the definitiveness of my announcement would make my parents listen.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019

Antosca pointed out that the Baptist document has a deeply humanist perspective, emphasizing the distinctness of human life and the definitiveness of death.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2019

Here’s what I was told, with some definitiveness, is on Apple’s mind in terms of M&A: Think the “human interface,” said the banker.

From Forbes • Apr. 25, 2013

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Poe, Edgar Allan