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Diffuseness

noun

The spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume.

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"Diffuseness" Quotes from Famous Books

... more palpable are the changing characteristics of style. The number and nature of classical allusions and Latin words and quotations; the kind and degree of elaboration of figures of speech, puns, conceits, and the like; diffuseness or concentration in the expression of thought; artificiality or lifelikeness in the treatment of dialogue; the use of prose or verse; the employment of oaths, checked by statute shortly after the accession of James I: these are the main aspects of style which can be used in ...

— The Facts About Shakespeare • William Allan Nielson

... and nobility of nature, a magnanimity and generosity, which rarely enter into the character of the artist; and perhaps the reason why his gifts were not more highly developed was that his estimation of them was so modest. His facility in versification led him to diffuseness in his poems, and the modest estimation in which he held his work, when done, was a discouragement to the limae labor so necessary to perfection. He told me that he had written eight hundred lines ...

— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman

Words linked to "Diffuseness" : diffuse, spread, scatter