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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: discursiveness
discursiveness
n : the quality of being discursive
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Discursiveness
Discursive
\Dis*cur"sive\, a. [Cf. F. discursif. See
Discourse, and cf.
Discoursive.]
1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide
field; roving; digressive; desultory.
“Discursive
notices.” --De Quincey.
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The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not
intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt.
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A man rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle.
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2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in
reasoning; argumentative.
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Reason is her being,
Discursive or intuitive. --Milton.
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Dis*cur"sive*ly, adv. --
Dis*cur"sive*ness, n.
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