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Noun: injectiveness
  1. (mathematics) The state or quality of relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain).
    "The basic problems of decomposition theory are to formulate necessary and sufficient conditions for injectiveness and to find out about the reconstruction map."

Type of: quality