disjunctness

English

Etymology

From disjunct +‎ -ness.

Noun

disjunctness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being disjunct.

   Synonym: disjunction

   • 1853, Samuel Neil, “Preface”, in The Art of Reasoning: A Popular Exposition of the Principles of Logic, Inductive and Deductive, […], London: Walton and Maberly, […], pages iv–v:

     It is one thing to plan, another to execute. How can it be otherwise? The plan rises before the mind’s eye, captivating by its beauty and originality; takes no account of the frequent falterings which one must feel in essaying an untried path, allows nothing for interruptions from sickness, sorrow, or fatiguing professional pursuits, takes not within its ken the contingencies of life, the occasional procrastination in which the mind will indulge, and the disadvantages which distance from the press, disjunctness of publication, and the imperative demands of the printer’s familiar, may concur in producing.

   • 1949, Patricia Ann Rapp, Contemporary American Piano Music, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, pages 13–14:

     The other elements of the atonal style are the disjunctness of the melodic line which progresses by leaps and bounds, a sometimes almost self-conscious experimentation with a certain spasmodicness of rhythmic phrase, and a mixture of imagination and logic in the omission of the "unessentials" of form.

   • 2015, Sebastian Zeidler, Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art (A Signale Book), Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, →ISBN, page 74:

     Thanks to their phenomenological materialism—the disjunctness of their aspects, the palpability of the stuff they are made of—many of Rodin’s sculptures resist being “grasped”: where “to grasp” is “to comprehend” as image.