dividedness

English

Etymology

From divided +‎ -ness.

Noun

dividedness (usually uncountable, plural dividednesses)

1. The quality of being divided.
   • 2009 April 24, Michiko Kakutani, “Lots of Contradictions in Birthin’ That Movie”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “The intensely personal energy of this dividedness, the deep-down tension in Mitchell, Selznick and Leigh between vulgarity and refinement,” she concludes, “is what gives the archetypes in ‘Gone With the Wind’ their extraordinary human resonance,” and thanks to the way the three of them threw themselves into the project, “that historical ‘costume’ story” never feels remotely past.

See also

• divisiveness