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  • noun The quality of being erratic.

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erratic +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The audience took up the cry, the dogs barked more excitedly, and five minutes of hilarity delayed the turn which, when at last started, was marked by rustiness and erraticness on the part of the dogs and by great peevishness on the part of Wilton Davis.

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • Ferguson has accentuated defence in recent weeks in response to earlier erraticness in that department, detracting from United's attacking lustre.

    Javier Hernández's injury against Aston Villa tests Manchester United 2011

  • COOPER: Barack Obama raising the questions about John McCain's erraticness?

    CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008 2008

  • "OK!" shoot in terms of the erraticness of the behavior.

    CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2007 2007

  • It didn't take much, I'm partial to the erraticness and weirdness of my demos.

    oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2004

  • The audience took up the cry, the dogs barked more excitedly, and five minutes of hilarity delayed the turn which, when at last started, was marked by rustiness and erraticness on the part of the dogs and by great peevishness on the part of

    Chapter 30 1917

  • With some of the erraticness that is said to belong to genius, Parkes enjoyed doing things at odd hours.

    Sir Robert Hart Bredon, Juliet 1910

  • The problems he sets on the stage are all concerned with hysteria; the convulsiveness of his emotions, his over-excited sensitiveness, his taste which demands ever sharper condimentation, his erraticness which he togged out to look like principles, and, last but not least, his choice of heroes and heroines, considered as physiological types (— a hospital ward! —): the whole represents a morbid picture; of this there can be no doubt.

    The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • Like the McCain campaign, all of their erraticness just kept reinforcing the need for a Obama administration and he continues here ...

    AroundTheCapitol.com 2008

  • ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Barack Obama raising the questions about John McCain's erraticness?

    CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008 2008

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