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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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\Dif*fu"sive*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse;
extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style:
Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.

      The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its
      diffusiveness.                           --Addison.

 

 

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