? Obs.–0 [f. as prec. + -NESS.]
1. The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
1690. Mor. Ess. Soul of Man, 394. The Present Life, is a perpetual alternativeness of real Cares and Torments, and of false Shadows of Repose; [etc.].
1847. in Craig.
† 2. The quality of being alternate; alternateness. Obs.
1731. Bailey, Alternativeness, a succession by course.
