diffusive
adjective
diffusiveness
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a word derived from
diffusive.
Example Sentences
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THE RULEBOOK: NEAR, FAR “It is a known fact in human nature, that its affections are commonly weak in proportion to the distance or diffusiveness of the object.”
From Fox News ● Aug. 19, 2019
Its philosophy is largely that of Swedenborg, without Swedenborg's terrible diffusiveness.
From Annouchka A Tale by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
No; the illuminating power of this light, its trembling diffusiveness, its bright, clear whiteness, and its low temperature, showed that it must be of electric origin.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne
For the quantity of their labours having become more important under their new masters than it was under their old ones, they had less care of selection, and their originality was weakened by diffusiveness.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary
This is inquiry, not a mere interrogative, but to express that the person addressed has not been clearly understood, perhaps from the vagueness or diffusiveness of his expressions.
