[f. next, or its L. original; see -ITY: cf. F. commensurabilité.] The quality of being commensurable.
1570. Billingsley, Euclid, X. xviii. 247. The commensurabilitie or incommensurabilitie of lives.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. xi. 332. A comely commensurability of the whole unto the parts, and the parts betweene themselves.
1794. G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Phil., IV. xlii. 133. Whenever we look for commensurabilities and equalities in nature, we are disappointed.
1841–4. Emerson, Ess. Gifts (1885), II. 437. There is no commensurability between a man and my gift.
