fragmentariness
- a word derived from fragmentary.
Example Sentences
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But Munro writes about incompleteness—the impossibility of completing anything, and the fragmentariness of our understanding of other people and even ourselves.
From Time ● Oct. 10, 2013
Divided into passionate duality, He, so finished and immune, now broken into desirous fragmentariness, Doomed to make an intolerable fool of himself In his effort toward completion again.
From Tortoises by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
They stand for wholeness amid fragments, for perfection amid imperfection; but the very imperfection and fragmentariness by which they are surrounded predicts their coming and affirms their reality.
From Books and Culture by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
It is true that philosophy endeavours to correct this fragmentariness by starting from the unity of the whole.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
The statue is not only a particle, but an isolated particle, and must first of all divert attention from its fragmentariness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
