dispersedness

English

Etymology

From dispersed +‎ -ness.

Noun

dispersedness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being dispersed.
   • 1840, Samuel Higgs Gael, A Practical Treatise on the Analogy between Legal and General Composition, London: Butterworth, page 233:

     Such is the dispersedness of these rules and directions, that it seems a compilation of the kind could not be made with a reasonable degree of completeness.

   • 1987, Alvin M. Saperstein, “An Enhanced Non-Provocative Defense in Europe”, in Journal of Peace Research, volume 24, number 1, page 52:

     NATO's PGM militia will be protected from artillery fire and air attack primarily by their own dispersedness.

   • 2004 Aug, Markus C. Becker, “Organizational Routines: a review of the literature”, in Industrial and Corporate Change, volume 13, number 4, Oxford, page 647:

     The dispersedness of knowledge is a driver of uncertainty.

Translations

state or quality of being dispersed

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.