Antonyms for diffuseness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : verb dih-fyooz; adjective dih-fyoos

Phonetic Transcription : verb dɪˈfyuz; adjective dɪˈfyus

Definition of diffuseness

Origin : 1520s (transitive), 1650s (intransitive), from Latin diffusus, past participle of diffundere "to pour out or away" (see diffusion). Related: Diffused; diffusing.

noun spread
noun wordiness

Example sentences :

The reason is that Thackeray worked by 'diffuseness of style.'
Extract from : « Gilbert Keith Chesterton » by Patrick Braybrooke

The temptation to diffuseness and irrelevancy is as embarrassing and dangerous.
Extract from : « Sir Walter Ralegh » by William Stebbing

It is, in short, to guard against the confusion that comes from diffuseness.
Extract from : « Outlines of Educational Doctrine » by John Frederick Herbart

The lectures are written in simple style, but suffer from diffuseness.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 » by Various

But when poems are paid by the line, bards are pardonable for diffuseness.
Extract from : « The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 » by Various

There is no waste of power in diffuseness and no employment of unnecessary epithets.
Extract from : « Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam » by Omar Khayyam

His writings are all interesting and informing, but in general suffer from his tendency to diffuseness.
Extract from : « A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature » by John W. Cousin

Belknap is an excellent authority, as accurate as Stith without his diffuseness; and Hubbard's notes are worthy of the text.
Extract from : « History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia » by Charles Campbell

But in contrast to the diffuseness of the Americans the French are distinguished by a brevity characteristic of their language.
Extract from : « The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens » by Georg Jellinek

But the best of the book is second-rate, vitiated by diffuseness, imitativeness, and the usual sentimentality.
Extract from : « Books and Persons » by Arnold Bennett

Synonyms for diffuseness

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