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

In literature, however, where the sensuous value of the words is comparatively small, indeterminateness of form is fatal to beauty, and, if extreme, even to expressiveness.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

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.

But they may spring from weakness and indeterminateness, on which account one needs to be well on his guard.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)