Found 2 items, similar to discursiveness.
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. [1913 Webster] The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] A man rather tacit than discursive. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster] 2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. [1913 Webster] Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. --Milton. -- Dis*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Dis*cur"sive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]