NOUN
- the spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume
How To Use diffuseness In A Sentence
- Although repetition and an occasional diffuseness mar Evans's magnificent achievement (these flaws vitiated his first volume as well), when his game is on, as it usually is, few can rival his ability to write crisply argued history. War Without End
- Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.
- Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration. Representative Man (1850)
- And there seems to be a diffuseness to the decision-making process that means it's impossible to get someone to take a wider view on anything and still have the power to act on it.
- It is the story of the Prince and the Lamia in the Book of Sindibad wherein it is given with Persian rhetoric and diffuseness. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Hence, although emotion is the overriding topic, paradoxically it is not immediacy but diffuseness in diction, syntax, and argument that has manifested itself as the overriding style. “The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- But there are still other factors at work that contribute to the field's diffuseness, that all relate in some way to the nature of the discipline of philosophy itself. Philosophy of Education
- The diffuseness of the shire was increased by the fact that the county town was not Aylesbury, near the middle, but the smaller town of Buckingham in the extreme north-west corner.
- There is, moreover, a diffuseness in the argument of "American Grace" that is reflected in its subtitle: "How Religion Divides and Unites Us. For God and Country
- Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration. Representative Men