indefiniteness

Example Sentences

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This is exactly the kind of indefiniteness which New York courts do not allow to form the terms of a binding contract.”

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021

One irony is that notwithstanding his reputation, Mr. Cruz tends to nurture a careful strategic indefiniteness about his positions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2016

Were Alice’s ideas to make it over that first hurdle, they would still be subject to challenges for obviousness, lack of novelty or indefiniteness.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2014

When the first volumes of the Joseph series were published, Novelist Willa Cather brilliantly characterized their "dreamy indefiniteness . . . the story has almost the movement of grazing sheep."

From Time Magazine Archive

If anyone relates a dream, has he any guarantee that he has told it correctly, and not changed it during the telling, or invented an addition which was forced by the indefiniteness of his recollection?

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund