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indefiniteness|ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪtnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being indefinite; want of definiteness; indeterminateness, vagueness.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xi. (Arb.) 111 The Roundell or Spheare..for his indefinitenesse hauing no speciall place of beginning nor end. 1623Bp. Hall Best Bargaine Wks. (1648) 476 The indefinitenesse of the charge implies a generallity. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 201 That pernicious looseness and indefiniteness of speech, which prevail so generally. 1880E. White Cert. Relig. 34 There is now and then an Oriental indefiniteness as to method. 1885Spurgeon Treas. Dav. cxxxii. 10 The fault of most prayers is their indefiniteness. |