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 Reason as the second hypostasis, being an activity, passes from potentiality to actuality, its indeterminateness being made determinate by the One or the Good.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

This potentiality and indeterminateness is matter, but it is not to be confused with the other matter of the phenomenal world.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

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