Discursiveness [noun]
Definition of Discursiveness:
indirect speech
Sentence/Example of Discursiveness:
The war—which is a discursive battle right now, it’s a war of ideas mostly—is waged by people who feel that what’s good for the land is what’s good for people.
Sterne's sentiment and discursiveness found several feeble imitators.
In this discursiveness of intellect he more nearly resembled the Encyclopedists of the 18th century than the men of his own time.
Even so slight a survey as this must show the astonishing discursiveness of Mr. Lewes's intellect.
There was the same discursiveness in his talk as in his sermon, Harry thought; and the same uneasy restlessness of manner.
And this feeling harassed him, increasing the natural discursiveness and inconsequence of his speech.
But the proverbial garrulity of old age would not be half so bad without its discursiveness.
Two other stories were used by the speaker, about the length and discursiveness of his talk.
There is no faltering, no hesitation, no discursiveness; the arrow flies swiftly and fatally to the mark.
In point of style and general method of treating subjects, De Quincey's greatest faults are pedantry and discursiveness.