fragmentariness en · NOUN
Etymology
From fragmentary + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being fragmentary.
Both French and English had once used parcel to refer to pieces of land that made up an estate, but when it evolved to imply an item of business in both, it retained its connotations of small fragmentariness in French, whereas in English it simply meant a package.
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