ˈdesultoriness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being desultory; scrappy discursiveness; disconnectedness; lack of method.
| 1661 Boyle Style of Script. Pref. (1675) 10 The Seeming Desultorinesse of my Method. 1727 Bailey vol. II, Desultoriness, the Skipping from one Thing to another. 1788 Reid Act. Powers ii. iii. 538 There is a desultoriness of thought in man. 1816 Buchan in Singer Hist. Cards 360 Excuse the desultoriness of these observations. 1870 Pall Mall G. 9 Aug. 12 Accidental defects of desultoriness and sketchiness. |