Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being fragmentary; want of continuity; brokenness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or property of being in fragments, or broken pieces; incompleteness; want of continuity.
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- noun The quality of being
fragmentary .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The marvellous self-containment of the scene comes across not only, somewhat paradoxically, in its fragmentariness, but also in the kinds of details the pictures tended to include.
Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject 2005
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And at last the priestess lay silent, vanquished, white body gleaming with that uncanny — fragmentariness — from her torn robes.
The Moon Pool 2004
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To be sure, he rescues his creatures from disorder, mediocrity, sameness, and above all from the fragmentariness of their being and the transcience of their values.
IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968
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The statue is not only a particle, but an isolated particle, and must first of all divert attention from its fragmentariness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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His whole duty is only to sort life as it flows through him, and in the vast fragmentariness of time and space and event to discover essential and inherent order and rhythm and shape.
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His whole duty is only to sort life as it flows through him, and in the vast fragmentariness of time and space and event to discover essential and inherent order and rhythm and shape.
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There is of course the Hegelian answer, that the real is the self-consistent and that nothing is self-consistent except the Whole; but this answer, true or false, is not relevant in our present discussion, which moves on a lower plane and is concerned with the status of objects of perception among other objects of equal fragmentariness.
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bertrand Russell 1921
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And at last the priestess lay silent, vanquished, white body gleaming with that uncanny -- fragmentariness -- from her torn robes.
The Moon Pool 1919
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When I come to his connection with Blanche Stroeve I am exasperated by the fragmentariness of the facts at my disposal.
Moon and Sixpence 1919
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But we have found that absolute realism is beset with the difficulty of thus accounting for the fragmentariness and isolation of the individual.
The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916
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