disjunctness

Noun

disjunctness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being disjunct.
   • It is one thing to plan, another to execute. How can it be otherwise? The plan rises before the mind’s eye, captivating by its beauty and originality; takes no account of the frequent falterings which one must feel in essaying an untried path, allows nothing for interruptions from sickness, sorrow...1853, Samuel Neil, “Preface”, in The Art of Reasoning: A Popular Exposition of the Principles of Logic, Inductive and Deductive, […], London: Walton and Maberly, […], pages iv–v
   • The other elements of the atonal style are the disjunctness of the melodic line which progresses by leaps and bounds, a sometimes almost self-conscious experimentation with a certain spasmodicness of rhythmic phrase, and a mixture of imagination and logic in the omission of the "unessentials" of...1949, Patricia Ann Rapp, Contemporary American Piano Music, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, pages 13–14

   Synonyms:

   disjunction