implicitness

implicit +‎ -ness

implicitness (countable and uncountable, plural implicitnesses)

1. The state or quality of being implicit.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 20:

     He heard me calmly; and as calmly promised to further our attachment. The implicitness of my reliance stayed not to ask his sympathy. To talk of her was happiness, and my brother seemed a part of that home whither he was then returning.

• explicitness

• “implicitness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “implicitness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.