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Desultoriness

Desultoriness \Des"ul*to*ri*ness\, n. The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness.

The seeming desultoriness of my method.
--Boyle.

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desultoriness

n. The state or quality of being desultory.

Usage examples of "desultoriness".

He was presumably a bachelor -- a man of family ties, however relaxed, though he might have been as often absent from home would not have been as regularly present in the same place -- and there was about him a boundless desultoriness which renewed Garnett's conviction that there is no one on earth as idle as an American who is not busy.

De Quincey more than once revels in grotesque and arabesque terrors, though with a desultoriness and learned pomp which deny him the rank of specialist.