indeterminate
adjective
not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
indeterminateness
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a word derived from
indeterminate.
Example Sentences
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You will learn to be comfortable with indeterminateness, with vaguely tethered pronouns, with dimly lighted horrors.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2012
Nor, considering the indeterminateness of points of health, capacity, and character, could any certain list be drawn up of persons bound to have issue.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
The Reason as the second hypostasis, being an activity, passes from potentiality to actuality, its indeterminateness being made determinate by the One or the Good.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
Moreover, the very indeterminateness of the dialect, the possibility of using varying degrees of “broadness,” increased the facility of rhyming, and added notably to the ease and spontaneity of composition.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
The indeterminateness of the suggestions of an unhumanized scene was then felt as a defect; now we feel it rather as an exaltation.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
