continuousness

continuousness

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Etymology

Etymology tree
English continuous
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English continuousness

    From continuous + -ness.

    Noun

    continuousness (uncountable)

    1. The state or quality of being continuous.
      • 1867, Henry Noble Day, The Art of Discourse‎[1]:
        Continuousness is that property of style which represents the thought as connected and flowing.
      • 1992, William Frawley, Linguistic Semantics‎[2]:
        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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