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
Totally to eliminate indefiniteness is impossible; to reduce it in extent and in force requires sincerity and vigor.
From How We Think by John Dewey
