The quality or state of being characteristic; the degree to which something is typical, distinctive, or representative of a particular nature.
From 'characteristical' plus the suffix '-ness' meaning the state or quality of being, creating an abstract noun form; archaic or rare usage.
This is an extremely rare word—probably only appearing in scholarly or philosophical writing—because 'characteristicness' does the same job more efficiently.
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