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fragmentariness

fragmentariness noun: the quality of being fragmentary.

Noun

fragmentariness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being fragmentary.
    • Both French and English had once used parcel to refer to pieces of land that made up an estate, but when it evolved to imply an item of business in both, it retained its connotations of small fragmentariness in French, whereas in English it simply meant a package.2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 470

Origin of fragmentariness

From fragmentary + -ness.

Questions about fragmentariness

What does fragmentariness mean?
Fragmentariness means the quality of being fragmentary.
What part of speech is fragmentariness?
Fragmentariness is a noun.

Words near fragmentariness in the dictionary

  1. fragmentalizes
  2. fragmentalizing
  3. fragmentally
  4. fragmentals
  5. fragmentarily
  6. fragmentariness
  7. fragmentarism
  8. fragmentary
  9. fragmentate
  10. fragmentated
  11. fragmentating

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