continuousness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English continuous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English continuousness From continuous + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being continuous.
Statives, however, are characterized by internal homogeneity and continuousness; they are unbounded in time, just as mass nouns are unbounded in space.
1992, William Frawley, Linguistic Semantics:Continuousness is that property of style which represents the thought as connected and flowing.
1867, Henry Noble Day, The Art of Discourse:
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Translations (1)
ro continuitate (state of being continuous)