释义 |
excursiveness|ɛkˈskɜːsɪvnɪs| [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being excursive; a tendency to depart from the beaten track, or from any fixed course; digressiveness; capacity for mental ‘flights’ in varied directions.
1754Richardson Grandison (1781) VI. xxxiv. 251 An excursiveness of imagination. a1859De Quincey Conversation Wks. XIV. 177 The natural excursiveness of colloquial intercourse..is one of its advantages. 1866Whipple Char. & Charac. Men 222 The very process which gave depth and excursiveness to his mental vision. |