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Desultoriness

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des·ul·to·ry  (dsl-tôr, -tr, dz-)
adj.
1. Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected: a desultory speech.
2. Occurring haphazardly; random. See Synonyms at chance.
[Latin dsultrius, leaping, from dsultor, a leaper, from dsultus, past participle of dsilre, to leap down : d-, de- + salre, to jump; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]
desul·tori·ly adv.
desul·tori·ness n.
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Casaubon made a dignified though somewhat sad audience; bowed in the right place, and avoided looking at anything documentary as far as possible, without showing disregard or impatience; mindful that this desultoriness was associated with the institutions of the country, and that the man who took him on this severe mental scamper was not only an amiable host, but a landholder and custos rotulorum.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
The same Celtic desultoriness characterized all the rest of his life, though it could not thwart his genius.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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