continuousness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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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