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 apparent indeterminateness of the future, upon which some advocates of free will rely, is merely a result of our ignorance.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

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

If it circumscribes us to one little province of being, it on the other frees us from the vague indeterminateness where we are at the mercy of every passing mood.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich