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

The indeterminateness of the suggestions of an unhumanized scene was then felt as a defect; now we feel it rather as an exaltation.

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

Moreover, the very indeterminateness of the dialect, the possibility of using varying degrees of “broadness,” increased the facility of rhyming, and added notably to the ease and spontaneity of composition.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

This is one instance of the indeterminateness of sense-awareness.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North