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Diffuseness

noun

The spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume.

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"Diffuseness" Quotes from Famous Books

... varied action. To be sure, Chaucer possesses all the medieval love for logical reasoning, and he takes a keen delight in psychological analysis; but when he introduces these things (except for the tendency to medieval diffuseness) they are true to the situation and really serve to enhance the suspense. There is much interest in the question often raised whether, if he had lived in an age like the Elizabethan, when the drama was the dominant literary form, he too would ...

— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher

... aware of the fact that there is no writer from whom it is more difficult to make extracts than from Thackeray. The reason is that Thackeray worked by 'diffuseness of style.' If he wished to be satirical about a character he was not so directly; rather he worked his way to the inside of the character, got to know all about it, and then began to be satirical. This is what Chesterton feels about the matter; it is no doubt the ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke

Words linked to "Diffuseness" : diffuse, spread, scatter