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Princeton's WordNet

  1. soundnessnoun

    a state or condition free from damage or decay

  2. wisdom, wiseness, soundnessnoun

    the quality of being prudent and sensible

  3. firmness, soundnessnoun

    the muscle tone of healthy tissue

    "his muscular firmness"

Wiktionary

  1. soundnessnoun

    The state or quality of being sound.

  2. soundnessnoun

    The result or product of being sound.

  3. soundnessnoun

    The property (of an argument) of not only being valid, but also of having true premises.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Soundnessnoun

    Etymology: from sound.

    I would I had that corporal soundness now,
    As when thy father and myself in friendship
    First tried our soldiership. William Shakespeare.

    In the end, very few excepted, all became subject to the sway of time: other odds there was none amongst them, saving only that some fell sooner away, and some later from the soundness of belief. Richard Hooker.

    Lesly is misled in his politicks; but he hath given proof of his soundness in religion. Jonathan Swift.

    This presupposed, it may stand then very well with strength and soundness of reason, even thus to answer. Richard Hooker.

Wikipedia

  1. Soundness

    In logic or, more precisely, deductive reasoning, an argument is sound if it is both valid in form and its premises are true. Soundness also has a related meaning in mathematical logic, wherein logical systems are sound if and only if every formula that can be proved in the system is logically valid with respect to the semantics of the system.

ChatGPT

  1. soundness

    Soundness generally refers to the property of being based on valid reasoning, accurate information, or firm evidence. It is often used to refer to the reliability, credibility, or solidity of arguments, theories, systems or methodologies. In logic and mathematics, it specifically refers to the quality of a deductive system that ensures that if a statement is derived or proven from a set of axioms or premises using the system's rules of inference, it must be true.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Soundnessnoun

    the quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith

Wikidata

  1. Soundness

    In mathematical logic, a logical system has the soundness property if and only if its inference rules prove only formulas that are valid with respect to its semantics. In most cases, this comes down to its rules having the property of preserving truth, but this is not the case in general.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of soundness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of soundness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of soundness in a Sentence

  1. Chief Executive Di Xiao:

    We believe that our sharp increases in revenue and profitability validate the soundness of our shared fine art ownership model.

  2. Elizabeth II:

    The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  3. The BoE:

    The PRA considers this lack of capabilities to be a market failure, posing risks to the PRA’s safety and soundness objective, and has therefore decided to clarify its expectations in this area, for the largest firms, the destruction of trading book asset value in a disorderly wind-down risks impacting UK financial stability, due to the scale and interconnectivity of their trading activities.

  4. Jeffrey Sprecher:

    We believe that placing more of the firm's own capital at the top of default waterfalls materially reduces regulatory capital charges on our members, most of the recent debate has focused on the safety and soundness of clearing houses primarily - which is very important - but we also view having more 'skin in the game' as a tangible differentiating factor in terms of lowering costs to customers.

  5. Robert Whitaker:

    There is a story that psychiatry doesn’t dare tell, which shows that our societal delusion about the benefits of psychiatric drugs isn’t entirely an innocent one. In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exaggerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep the story of poor long-term outcomes hidden.

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