Adjective : an indefinite number. ,an indefinite boundary; an indefinite date in the future. From Dictionary.com.
The only reply that it is possible is that the indefiniteness is the result of design. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John] Reference
"indefiniteness" of the Tiger leave and after first claiming "the PGA Tour has not been significantly impacted in a negative way" provided this more realistic assessment. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The indefiniteness of this letter troubled Edward. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm tohim. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”] Reference
We must determine when you end this indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2005] Reference
Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”] Reference
These beliefs are surrounded by haze and indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
I find indefiniteness a bit harder to get my head around. From Wordnik.com. [A is for Articles (2) « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
They evinced themselves in a universal moral indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
Sara supporters branches? indefiniteness? dials. colonizing!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Arafat. Godfather of Terror:] Reference
“The indefiniteness consists in your imagining that I am free.”. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
While dogmatism however is dangerous indefiniteness is unsatisfying. From Wordnik.com. [Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore] Reference
The imagery has the indefiniteness of distant objects seen by moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
The indefiniteness is related to the agreement she signed, not the injunction. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting Opinion About Injunctions To Enforce Speech-Restrictive Agreements,] Reference
This nunnation expresses indefiniteness, e.g. “Malikun” = a king, any king. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"What might we say of this word?" are objectionable on the score of indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
Now, there is a great deal of indefiniteness in both those terms, 'race' and 'color.'. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
If here expresses certainty, not indefiniteness; "since" would be a proper translation. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference
But in my distress the indefiniteness of the apprehension makes my suffering even more acute. From Wordnik.com. [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference
Such indefiniteness is, in Hartley's view, hardly a defect, but rather a valuable feature of language. From Wordnik.com. [David Hartley] Reference
Nothing else has that definite indefiniteness, that melting permanence, that evanescing changelessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
Around this indefinite a definite conception will be realized, but the way lies through indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
The course of time, unless regularly marked by divisions of number, partakes of the indefiniteness of the. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
The rigid outlines of history fade in it to the indefiniteness of fable, and fact becomes as flexible as fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
In 1996, you argued that indefiniteness in the law was a good thing because it allowed judges to change the law. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Cornyn: A Confirmation Conversion?] Reference
But of late new inner relations had arisen between him and her, which frightened Vronsky by their indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
It might be bad, this new position, but it would be clear; there would be no indefiniteness or falsehood about it. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
Their indefiniteness is probably the reason why he singles them out, as especially incapable of being tested by experiment. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
Instead, he put it off with vagueness and indefiniteness and inquired after the family, particularly after Mrs. Morse and Ruth. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 44] Reference
The Commission also held that the submission of alternative constructions of "said zinc anode" was an admission of indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [The 271 Patent Blog] Reference
COLOR of a citizen not inquired into in our early history, 51; should not be regarded in our laws, 53; indefiniteness of the term, 360. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
The whole performance, eloquent though it was, seemed to me largely shorn of its effectiveness of appeal, because of its indefiniteness. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The circumlocution and indefiniteness of this letter led me to infer that there was something behind it which the writer had not stated. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
Yet, in the final summing-up, there would probably have been a traditional indefiniteness about the wherefore of the Gregoriev ostracism. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
This want of unity between the various parts of our educational system manifests itself again in the indefiniteness of aim of many of our. From Wordnik.com. [The Children: Some Educational Problems] Reference
Somehow their spirits rose a little at that; the indefiniteness of the animal's fate had alarmed some of them, and pocket money was scanty. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference
All that was painful in his relations with Anna, all the feeling of indefiniteness left by their conversation, had slipped out of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
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