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Answer for the clue "The state of being polyvalent ", 11 letters:
polyvalence

Word definitions for polyvalence in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the state of being polyvalent. 2 is congruent with polyvalency

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being polyvalent [syn: polyvalency , multivalence , multivalency ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In chemistry, polyvalence or multivalence refers to atoms or molecules that exhibit more than one valence (chemistry) . Polyvalence or polyvalent may also refer to: Polyvalence (music) , the musical use of more than one key simultaneously Polyvalent antibody ...

Usage examples of polyvalence.

The suspicion of a kind of journalistic superficiality to which such texts, and beyond them, the entire concept of testimony, are subject founders on this deepening polyvalence as the primary dynamic in putting pen to paper.

Derridean polyvalence, it reaches quite determinable persons in a determinable place, where it yields an all too decipherable meaning.

I must reiterate that the polyvalence -- the almost unbounded permissiveness -- of interpretation is essentially of the same nature as that of Rorschach tests.