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Definition of Roundaboutness
1. n. The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
Definition of Roundaboutness
1. Noun. The quality of being roundabout or circuitous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Roundaboutness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundaboutness
Literary usage of Roundaboutness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick (1903)
"The roundaboutness of today is as nothing to that which existed under the old
order of society. For the new order rests on radically different ideas; ..."
2. Value and Distribution: A Critical and Constructive Study by Herbert Joseph Davenport (1907)
"There is, however, nothing to show that this fact of diminishing return is due
to greater technological roundaboutness; there would, in truth, ..."
3. Value and Distribution: A Critical and Constructive Study by Herbert Joseph Davenport (1908)
"There is, however, nothing to show that this fact of diminishing return is due
to greater technological roundaboutness ; there would, ..."
4. The Theory of Earned and Unearned Incomes: A Study of the Economic Laws of by Harry Gunnison Brown (1918)
"Such a change to greater roundaboutness in the production on exceptionally well
located (or otherwise good) land would be likely to mean a larger change in ..."
5. Principles of Economics by Fred Manville Taylor, Elmer Cleveland Adams (1918)
"But that is a very simple illustration of roundaboutness. ... roundaboutness
therefore, whether simple or complex, is an unfailing characteristic of the ..."
6. Economics by Frank Albert Fetter (1915)
"When, however, the roundaboutness of the process is necessarily time- consuming,
then time-preference operates. For an interval of time divides the indirect ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"In his distinctions between the Reason and the Understanding he has been helped
by later and devoted interpreters, but left to his own ' roundaboutness,' he ..."
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