[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being tentative; experimental character.
1861. Dr. Woodham Webb, in Med. Times, 18 May, 526/1. In Hospital work especially, we want the steadying influence of age … as well as the impetuous tentativeness of youth.
1894. Athenæum, 6 Jan., 11/2. It only produces an appearance of uncertainty and tentativeness.
