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Indefiniteness

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in·def·i·nite  (n-df-nt)
adj.
Not definite, especially:
a. Unclear; vague.
b. Lacking precise limits: an indefinite leave of absence.
c. Uncertain; undecided: indefinite about their plans.
in·defi·nite·ly adv.
in·defi·nite·ness n.
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Noun1.indefiniteness - the quality of being vague and poorly defined
indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination
uncertainness, uncertainty, precariousness - being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; "the uncertainty of the outcome"; "the precariousness of his income"
inconclusiveness - the quality of being inconclusive


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Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
All that was painful in his relations with Anna, all the feeling of indefiniteness left by their conversation, had slipped out of his mind.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way?
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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