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indetermination|ɪndɪtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən|
[f. indeterminate: see -ation. Cf. F. indétermination (1651 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Absence or want of determination; the fact or condition of being undetermined; unsettledness.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. §7. 107 The indetermination of her [the Virgin's] thoughts was a trouble great as the passion of her love. 1660― Duct. Dubit. iv. i. i. §5 In moral and spiritual things, liberty and indetermination are weakness. 1749Bolingbroke Patriot. 243 His whole management..was contrived to keep up a kind of general indetermination in the party about the succession. 1838Blackw. Mag. XLIV. 545 While this indetermination continues, the power of choice remains inoperative. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. viii. 166 The earliest languages are marked by exuberance, indetermination.
b. The fact of being indeterminate as a quantity, a problem, or the like.
1789T. Taylor Proclus' Comm. II. 32 Such things as are properly denominated problems, ought to avoid indetermination, and not to be of the number of things capable of infinite variation.
†c. An indeterminate number or quantity. Obs.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. x. §4 (1622) 309 All wholes, all parts, all termes, and all indeterminations. |