noun · countable / uncountable · rare

soundness

soundness · soundnesses

мудрість

мудрость

Weisheit

The state or quality of being soundThe state or quality of being sound.

US/sˈaʊndnəs/

» He who guards the soundness of his mind keeps his life.

Meaning

4 senses

(uncountable)The state or quality of being sound.
the quality of being prudent and sensible
(countable)The result or product of being sound.
(countable, uncountable)The property (of an argument) of not only being valid, but also of having true premises.
(countable, uncountable)The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is a theorem then it must also be valid. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever T⊢φ is true, then T⊨φ must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.

Examples

3 sentences

He who guards the soundness of his mind keeps his life.
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Edge cases are extremely important to testing the soundness of an argument.
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The bank's actions seemed to assure investors about the soundness of the governmental bonds.
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Origin

From Middle English soundenes, soundnes, from Old English *sundnes, *ġesundnes (attested i

From Middle English soundenes, soundnes, from Old English *sundnes, *ġesundnes (attested in onsundnes), from Proto-West Germanic *sundnassī (“soundness, health”); equivalent to sound + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian sûnens (“soundness, health”), Middle Low German suntnisse (“soundness, health”), Middle High German suntnisse (“soundness, health”), German Gesundnis (“health”).

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