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
Nor, considering the indeterminateness of points of health, capacity, and character, could any certain list be drawn up of persons bound to have issue.
From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.
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
But when perceived as invested in a given mass of snow or granite before us, they are divested of that indeterminateness, and become restricted to a determinate measure and degree.
From Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.' by Grote, George
The indeterminateness of our paths of association in concreto is thus almost as striking a feature of them as the uniformity of their abstract form.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William
