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
Legal amplifications and circumlocutions are of all lands and peoples; but for the triumph of this diffusiveness commend me to the Germans.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
The invariable law of Mozart’s genius—in spite of, or perhaps, in aid of its broad inclusiveness—is condensation or conciseness; of Schubert’s, it is expansion and diffusiveness.
From Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Charles Barnard
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
It was real slushy in its copiousness and diffusiveness.
From The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy by Henry Ossian Flipper
