[f. prec. + -NESS.] Commensurable quality or state.
1557. Recorde, Whetst., N n ij. To make that trialle of commensurablenesse.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. i. 12. There is no commensurableness between this Object and a created Understanding.
1792. Dr. [James] Gregory, Phil. & Lit. Ess., II. 376. But the universal and promiscuous commensurableness of all motives, bearing relation to the same action, is implied in the philosophical notion of the force of motives. Ibid., 424–5. And for the sake of easy commensurableness we shall suppose this small additional motive to be of the same kind with the great original opposite motives; for instance, the offer of money.
1865. Reader, 16 Sept., 399/3. They occupy exactly the same number of lines both in Greek and English … the commensurableness was undesigned.
