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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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