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- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of unfocusedness.
Chaos is a position, but a weak one, related to that “unfocussedness” about which I have forgotten to speak.
1970 December 12, Donald Barthelme, “The Rise of Capitalism”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2026, page 452 more examples
It was a combination of many complex factors that powered him “out of the nest,” all of them rooted in the unfocussedness that is characteristic of this stage in life.
1971 June 3, John R. Claypool, “Annual Sermon: ‘The Challenge of This Hour’”, in The Baptist Record, volume XC, number 13, Jackson, Miss.: Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 6When a target point of operation is visible in a monocular endoscopic image, a surgeon would reach the point with a slave robot by carefully moving the master equipment in the depth direction with the help of visual information such as the unfocussedness and the deformation due to touch.
2001, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe, “Laser-Pointing Endoscope System for Natural 3D Interface between Robotic Equipments and Surgeons”, in James D. Westwood, Helene Miller Hoffman, Greg T. Mogel, Don Stredney, Richard A. Robb, editors, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2001: Outer Space, Inner Space, Virtual Space (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; 81), Amsterdam: IOS Press, →ISBN, page 349
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unfocussedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfocussedness
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