definiteness

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That definiteness offers an appealing sense of certainty to the weary and existentially burned-out person living through this down period between the Trump era, COVID, and whatever’s next.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2021

The writer Nat Hentoff saw his playing as having “strength and definiteness of attack, vigorous pulsation and organic logic”.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2016

“The master key consists of 17 principles, the first of which is definiteness of purpose,” and so on.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2012

They have for her at first the unreality, the incongruity, the strange definiteness of the people in her dreams and thoughts; they are close and unapproachable like strange voices overheard in a forest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, throughout the poem, I conceive that the first striking character of its scenery is intense definition; precisely the reflection of that definiteness which we have already traced in pictorial art.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John