indefiniteness

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This is exactly the kind of indefiniteness which New York courts do not allow to form the terms of a binding contract.”

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021

One irony is that notwithstanding his reputation, Mr. Cruz tends to nurture a careful strategic indefiniteness about his positions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2016

Were Alice’s ideas to make it over that first hurdle, they would still be subject to challenges for obviousness, lack of novelty or indefiniteness.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2014

Many a bitter word crackled back and forth across the U. S. Senate where Wets and Drys alike flayed the indefiniteness of the Hoover Prohibition policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there are other objects of psychiatric research which suffer from the same trait of indefiniteness, e.g., many compulsion ideas, with which even respectable and esteemed psychiatrists have occupied themselves.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund