[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being elementary.
1669. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 250. The material elementaryness of concrets.
1862. C. J. Vaughan, Bk. & Life, 64. Things almost puerile in their elementariness.
1881. Nation (N.Y.), XXXII. 386/1. The elementariness of ‘the things of the mind.’
