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miscellaneousness en · NOUN

Etymology

From miscellaneous + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being miscellaneous.
    • There are essentially two different attitudes toward the Outer and Miscellaneous chapters of the Zhuangzi. The first emphasizes their "disorder" and "miscellaneousness" and fails to take into account a certain sort of consistency among them. 1994, Xiaogan Liu, Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters, page 86:
    • But this miscellaneousness comes to an end in one subject, the appalling subject of the Speaker's own death and resurrection. 1876, Joseph Parker, The Priesthood of Christ: a Re-statement of Vital Truth, page 54: