absoluteness Definition

absolute
adj

1. Complete; total; perfect.

Thesaurus: complete, total, entire, unlimited, infinite, full, whole, comprehensive, thorough, perfect, unmitigated, unbounded.
2. Without limits; not controlled by anything or anyone else.

Thesaurus: authoritarian, supreme, domineering, autocratic, totalitarian, suppressive, controlling, imperious, dictatorial, dogmatic, despotic; Antonym: lenient, democratic.
3. Certain; undoubted.

Thesaurus: certain, positive, unquestionable, undeniable, undoubted.
4. Not measured in comparison with other things; not relative.

Example: an absolute standard
5. Pure; not mixed with anything else.
6a. grammar.
Said of a clause or phrase: standing alone, ie not dependent on the rest of the sentence. Compare relative adj 5b.
6b. grammar.
Said of an adjective or a transitive verb: standing alone, ie without a noun or an object respectively.

noun

1. A rule, standard, etc which is thought to be true or right in all situations.
2. philos.
That which can exist without being related to anything else.
Form: the absolute

Derivative: absoluteness
noun

Etymology: 14c: from Latin absolutus loosened or separate, from absolvere (see absolve).