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

Logicians and detectives and jurymen and suspicious wives and members of the Royal Astronomic Society recognize this indeterminateness, but have the delusion that in the method of agreement there is final, or real evidence.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

But they may spring from weakness and indeterminateness, on which account one needs to be well on his guard.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

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