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continuousness

continuousness noun: the state or quality of being continuous.

Noun

continuousness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being continuous.
    • Continuousness is that property of style which represents the thought as connected and flowing.1867, Henry Noble Day, The Art of Discourse
    • Statives, however, are characterized by internal homogeneity and continuousness; they are unbounded in time, just as mass nouns are unbounded in space.1992, William Frawley, Linguistic Semantics

Origin of continuousness

From continuous + -ness.

Questions about continuousness

What does continuousness mean?
Continuousness means the state or quality of being continuous.
What part of speech is continuousness?
Continuousness is a noun.

Words near continuousness in the dictionary

  1. continuously
  2. continuously habitable zone
  3. continuously habitable zones
  4. continuously variable transmission
  5. continuously variable transmissions
  6. continuousness
  7. continuum
  8. continuum hypothesis
  9. continuum mechanics
  10. continuum theory
  11. continuumlike

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