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Definition of Diffusiveness
1. n. The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
Definition of Diffusiveness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being diffusive. ¹
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Definition of Diffusiveness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diffusiveness
Literary usage of Diffusiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The observe-il velocity of diffusion or diffusiveness of several important gases ;
the numbers in the hist column, headed ' Rate of ..."
2. Impressions of America and the American Churches by of Ormiston George Lewis, George Lewis (1845)
"... Religion—Experiment Unfinished—Missions—Revivals—Education—diffusiveness in
New England—Defects—Unchristian Character— Slavery—Progress of Abolition ..."
3. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"Extreme diffusiveness of odours. — Delicacy of the organs of smell.—How chemistry
increases our comforts, gives rise to new arts, and generally civilises. ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"But if this is adhered to as the rule and object, it will avoid much unconnected
diffusiveness of teaching, which has been the fault of this age in ..."
5. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"The diffusiveness of the Spirit is to be considered as belonging to its very nature.
For the Spirit is not simply immanent in the physical universe, ..."
6. Sermons ...: To which is Added an Address Delivered at Waterloo, N.Y., June by Charles Henry Platt (1872)
"THE diffusiveness OF GRACE. ISAIAH Ix. 22. "A little one shall become.a thousand,
and a small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in his time. ..."
7. The Skeptical Era in Modern History: Or, The Infidelity of the Eighteenth by Truman Marcellus Post (1856)
"... Early Culture—Genius—Language —Court Literature—Political
Ascendency—Self-diffusiveness— Causes of Infidelity in her Civil and Ecclesiastic
Constitution ..."
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