manifoldness

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The Development of Classification The problem of dividing and subdividing the whole of human knowledge and of thus bringing order into the manifoldness of scientific efforts has fascinated the leading thinkers of all ages.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

This uniformity does not exclude the fact that the patients too may show a manifoldness of mental states.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

The first gift suggests unity, and leads to the detection of resemblances; the second suggests variety or manifoldness, and emphasizes contrasts.

From Froebel's Gifts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

We have always wondered at the breadth and the manifoldness of the English soul, in whose literature one finds, side by side, Milton and Swift, Scott and Shelley, Shakespeare and Byron.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various

On the other side the attempts to reduce the manifoldness of the actual chemical elements to one single primordial matter have never ceased, and the latest development of science seems to endorse such a view.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various