consecutiveness

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Good for moments these are always good: we may open by chance, dip anywhere, read in any order, begin at the last paragraph and read backward as well; obvious consecutiveness being of less consequence.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

You've given her just acuteness enough to question, without consecutiveness enough to explain.

From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo

He never closed his eyes, nor folded his arms, but went forward from work to work with the consecutiveness of a law of nature.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry

He passed to the mysterious consecutiveness of scientific research, the sudden determination of the European race mind to know more than chance thoughts could tell it….

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

An attempt has been made, however, to color the narrative with human interest, and to give it consecutiveness, though this has sometimes been very hard to do.

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert