indeterminateness

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You will learn to be comfortable with indeterminateness, with vaguely tethered pronouns, with dimly lighted horrors.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2012

"In a cycle"�no beginning and no end�insinuates an indeterminateness in the relationship between the two men: Someone may have started this, but who can tell and what does it matter?

From Time Magazine Archive

To this difficulty must be added, moreover, the future indeterminateness of the means for obtaining such universal happiness.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

The king, however, availing himself of this indeterminateness, caused writs to be issued to a very small proportion of the towns which had usually enjoyed the privilege.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by Prescott, William Hickling

Pure being and pure nothing are the same, although we mean different things by them; both are absolute indeterminateness.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard