单词 | spreadoutness |
释义 | > as lemmasspreadˈoutness spreadˈoutness n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun] > condition of being diffuseness1474 dispersedness1571 dispersenessa1613 spreadoutness1879 1879 W. James in Mind 4 339 Since the essences of things are as a matter of fact spread out and disseminated through the whole extent of time and space, it is in their spread-outness and alternation that he [sc. the entire man] will enjoy them. 1915 G. F. Stout Man. Psychol. (ed. 3) ii. i. 214 There is another inseparable character belonging to many kinds of sensation,..which may be called Extensity or extensiveness or diffusion or ‘spreadoutness’. 1993 R. Jenkins Portraits & Miniatures 155 ‘Spread-outness’ is indeed in general the enemy of metropolitan quality. 2004 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 27 Jan. 4 In the countryside we also have to cope with the very spreadoutness of our shire counties. < as lemmas |
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