English
putativeness
From putative + -ness.
Formed from putative + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *pewH- ‘to be clean, pure’
Latin putō ‘to think, to consider, to reckon’
Latin putātus ‘thought’
Latin putātīvus ‘supposed, purported’
Middle French putatif
English putative
Today it means
noun The quality of being putative.
Sources
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