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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 discursive
Familiarity information: DISCURSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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