1. the quality or state of being bound; the condition of being tied, fastened, or constrained
Usage: formal; often used in philosophical or technical contexts
2. in linguistics and logic, the property of a variable being bound by a quantifier or operator
Usage: technical; field-specific to formal logic and linguistics

Examples

• The boundness of the prisoner's wrists made escape impossible.
• She felt a sense of boundness in her marriage, unable to pursue her own dreams.
• The boundness of variables in the equation must be carefully tracked.
• His boundness to tradition prevented him from embracing new ideas.
• The boundness of the contract left little room for negotiation.
• In formal logic, the boundness of quantified variables is essential to meaning.