Definition of Disjointedness

1. Noun. Lacking order or coherence.

Generic synonyms: Incoherence, Incoherency
Derivative terms: Disjointed

Definition of Disjointedness

1. Noun. The state or condition of being disjointed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disjointedness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disjointedness

disinvolving
disir
disject
disjected
disjecting
disjection
disjects
disjoin
disjoined
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disjoining
disjoins
disjoint
disjointed
disjointedly
disjointedness (current term)
disjointing
disjointly
disjointness
disjoints
disjunct
disjunction
disjunction mutant
disjunctions
disjunctive
disjunctive absorption
disjunctive conjunction
disjunctive normal form
disjunctively
disjunctiveness

Literary usage of Disjointedness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays by Harriet Ware Hall (1890)
"nized this disjointedness as a fixed law from which there are no exceptions, we shall have to acknowledge that such people must have some power of mastery ..."

2. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"They establish a sort of disjointedness in things which in certain quarters will appear intolerable. They * The reader must observe that we are reasoning ..."

3. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1905)
"... to historical writing, it is perhaps ungracious to object to their literary baldness and disjointedness; but none of the essays shows a facile pen. ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"The work reveals this origin in a disjointedness of some of its portions that makes it difficult to read and still more so to résumé. ..."

5. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"Not only do the materials lend themselves under certain circumstances to aesthetic manipulation, but underlying their worst disjointedness are three great ..."

6. The Contemporary Review (1885)
"... very scant pains, too, seem to have been taken about the composition of the sentences, which have all the disjointedness of a journal-entry. ..."

7. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1885)
"... and, if one may judge by its disjointedness and the great confusion in the mathe. matical notation ..."

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