continuousness
English
Etymology
continuous + -ness
Noun
continuousness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being continuous.
- 1867, Henry Noble Day, The Art of Discourse:
- Continuousness is that property of style which represents the thought as connected and flowing.
- 1992, William Frawley, Linguistic Semantics:
- Statives, however, are characterized by internal homogeneity and continuousness; they are unbounded in time, just as mass nouns are unbounded in space.
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:continuity
Related terms
- continuity
Translations
state of being continuous
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