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DISCURSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discursiveness mean? 

DISCURSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun DISCURSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being discursiveplay

  Familiarity information: DISCURSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISCURSIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being discursive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("discursiveness" is a kind of...):

indirectness (having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal)

Derivation:

discursive ((of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects)

discursive (proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition)


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