Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being continuous.
Continuousness is that property of style which represents the thought as connected and flowing.
1867, Henry Noble Day, The Art of Discourse1 more example
Statives, however, are characterized by internal homogeneity and continuousness; they are unbounded in time, just as mass nouns are unbounded in space.
1992, William Frawley, Linguistic Semantics
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of something that continues without end or interruption
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Romanian continuitate
- continuitatestate of being continuous
Cite this entry
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