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diˈffusedness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The condition or quality of being diffused.
†1. Confusedness, perplexity, obscurity. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Obscurité, obscuritie..diffusednesse.
2. The quality of being widely dispersed.
a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 378 Willing to reduce the diffusedness of our repentance at large to the certainty of some one set time. 1681–2Boyle New Exp. Icy Noctiluca 46 A conjecture I had made about the great diffusedness of the Noctilucal Matter. 1747Edwards Canons Crit. xxii. (1765) 211 It is the diffusedness, or extent of her infection which is here described. |