adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a quantitative manner; in respect of quantity.
1593. R. Harvey, Philad., 21. He and his surveyed it quantitatively.
1624. Gataker, Transubst., 115. With quantitie, but not quantitatively.
1644. Digby, Of Man’s Soul, x. 423. One pure simple substance, peraduenture Metaphysically, or formally diuisible;… but not quantitatiuely.
1845. G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., I. 347. The magnesia and silica were not determined quantitatively.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 49. The brain holds a more favorable relation quantitatively to the body and to the spinal cord.
So Quantitativeness, the quality or condition of being quantitative.
1858. H. Spencer, Ess., I. 225. The more specific characteristic of scientific previsions … their quantitativeness. Ibid. (1873), Stud. Sociol. (1882), 45. Where they are quantitative, their quantitativeness … is mostly very indefinite.
