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disconnectiveness

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English

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Etymology

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From disconnective +‎ -ness.

Noun

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disconnectiveness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being disconnective.
    • 2000, C. W. E. Bigsby, Modern American Drama, 1945-2000, page 112:
      To his mind art had come to prize and to celebrate disconnectiveness for its own sake. That disconnectiveness was genuine enough but art in some fundamental way is surely, he insists, a denial of the very chaos it observes and the artist is one who peoples desolation and inscribes the meaning he suspects may not exist.