Diffuseness [noun]

And all the time she was aware of Brodrick's eyes fixed on Miss Holland with that curious lack of diffuseness in their vision.

The one is that which is given with great diffuseness in Cabbalistic writings, and has been brought into a system.

He was indulgent to the diffuseness of a suffering soul, and permitted her to pour out freely her most trivial afflictions.

Accordingly, the bias of the former is toward over-intensity, of the latter toward over-diffuseness.

And there was pathos in those simple, stammering words, more than in half the self-conscious diffuseness of tragic poetry.

They avoid circumlocutions, eschew diffuseness, go straight to the point, and prefer concrete to abstract expressions.

The fault of Mr Townsend's style is, diffuseness, a tendency to colloquiality, and a deficiency of vigour.

The decline of the old English poetry is shown by an increase of diffuseness and insipidity.

And it would ill become one who is endeavouring to recommend conciseness, to disfigure that very endeavour by diffuseness.

The extreme diffuseness of the light enabled me to see the smallest objects in the distant copses.