radicality

English

Etymology

radical +‎ -ity

Noun

radicality (plural 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[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

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

3. (obsolete) Radicalness; relation to root in essential nature or principle.

Synonyms

• radicalness (less common)