unfocusedness

alternative unfocussedness

1. uncountableThe quality of being unfocused.

   “One night we had a three-and-a-half-hour discussion about the unfocusedness of the second act,” says Thom Babe, author of Kid Champion, a 1975 production.

   1976, Faye Levine, “Theater: Broadway’s Heroes and Hoaxers”, in The Culture Barons, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →ISBN, page 97

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   For is not that very quality of unfocusedness—as if Augustine, despite his dogmas about life, remains, finally, a mystery to himself in his refusal to take himself seriously—peculiarly modern?

   1987, Richard Poole, “The Fox in the Attic and The Wooden Shepherdess”, in Richard Hughes: Novelist, Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan: Poetry Wales Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Richard Hughes: Novelist), page 213

   At that time I’d look at that brief unfocusedness in her eyes before she hurried to fix me a snack, becoming housewife and mother again, and I’d think, guilt.

   1997, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, “Neem”, in The Mistress of Spices, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 225