Crossword clues for discursiveness
discursiveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discursive \Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See Discourse, and cf. Discoursive.]
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Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. ``Discursive notices.''
--De Quincey.The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive.
--Hazlitt.A man rather tacit than discursive.
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Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive.
--Milton. -- Dis*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Dis*cur"sive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being discursive.
WordNet
n. the quality of being discursive
Usage examples of "discursiveness".
Yet this discursiveness is not so irrelevant to the handful of pages which follow.
They, too, have been charged with discursiveness, with disregard of chronological order (which is in itself a crime), with unconventionality of form (which is an impropriety).
The moment was too propitious for the display of that discursiveness which seemed the only bond of union among tempers so divergent.
The writer's discursiveness is too often and too vexatiously felt by the reader to permit of the survival of any sense of theorematic unity in his mind.
By this arrangement the terrible discursiveness of the fair, and man's cruel disposition to work a subject threadbare, were controlled and modified, and a happy balance of conversation established.