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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

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 Verne, Jules

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.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

And from this diffusiveness of the nature of good it follows, that the best and most accomplished men are inclined to converse with persons of the highest condition.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

There are always some who—   'Taking God's word under wise protection,   Correct its tendency to diffusiveness.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander