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Definition of Diffuseness
1. Noun. The spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume.
Definition of Diffuseness
1. n. The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
Definition of Diffuseness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being diffuse. ¹
2. Noun. The result or product of being diffuse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diffuseness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diffuseness
Literary usage of Diffuseness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1890)
"diffuseness may arise from a needless multiplication of shades of meaning.
This is the diffuseness of Addison and Johnson. Johnson says—' Kindness is ..."
2. Composition and Rhetoric for Schools by Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon (1899)
"diffuseness a Common Cause of Weak Style. ... The fault of diffuseness takes two
forms — the use of superfluous words, and the use of superfluous details. ..."
3. Rhetoric: Its Theory and Practice. "English Style in Public Discourse" by Austin Phelps, Henry Allyn Frink (1895)
"Again: exception obviously occurs where diffuseness is necessary to perspicuity.
For some audiences, on some subjects, as we have seen, perspicuity de- D.ff ..."
4. Historical and Biographical Essays by John Forster (1858)
"... by the constantly recurring necessity of rhyme (an easy necessity), tends to
a slatternly diffuseness. The heroic line must have muscle as it proceeds, ..."
5. Helpful Hints on Writing and Reading by Grenville Kleiser (1911)
"CONCISENESS AND diffuseness The concise writer, aiming to express himself in the
briefest possible manner, rejects as redundant everything not material to ..."
6. History of Roman Literature: From It's Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1823)
"... Cicero adopted the mode of writing in dialogues, in which rhetorical diffuseness,
and looseness of definition, might be overlooked, and in which ample ..."
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