continuousness
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Etymology edit
continuous + -ness
Noun edit
continuousness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being continuous.
- 1867, Henry Noble Day, The Art of Discourse[1]:
- Continuousness is that property of style which represents the thought as connected and flowing.
- 1992, William Frawley, Linguistic Semantics[2]:
- Statives, however, are characterized by internal homogeneity and continuousness; they are unbounded in time, just as mass nouns are unbounded in space.
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:continuity
Related terms edit
Translations edit
state of being continuous
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