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de·fin·i·tude

 (dĭ-fĭn′ĭ-to͞od′, -tyo͞od′)
n.
The quality of being definite or exact; precision.
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de•fin•i•tude

(dɪˈfɪn ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud)

n.
definiteness.
[1830–40]
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The emergence of classical definitude from quantum potentiality signifies the extraction of a definite period of time from the indeterminate present of the microphysical system in its undisturbed state.
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That is to say, poetry, discarding much of its pretextual metaphysics, has striven more and more to locate in a sphere of "definitude," where the human condition is describable within the phenomenological grid of reality.