Meanings
nounscatteration (countable and uncountable, plural scatterations)
plural scatterations
- countableuncountableA scattered arrangement.
Maybe there are still readers who can be stirred by such stale fancies as that seedlike scatteration of stars — does anybody except a writer in search of a metaphor really see stars that way?
2009 August 16, David Gates, “Sensimilia and Sensibility”, in New York Times
Origin
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scatteration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scatteration
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“scatteration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scatteration. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scatteration,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scatteration.
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