English

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Etymology

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From miscellaneous +‎ -ness.

Noun

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miscellaneousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being miscellaneous.
    • 1876, Joseph Parker, The Priesthood of Christ: a Re-statement of Vital Truth, page 54:
      But this miscellaneousness comes to an end in one subject, the appalling subject of the Speaker's own death and resurrection.
    • 1994, Xiaogan Liu, Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters, page 86:
      There are essentially two different attitudes toward the Outer and Miscellaneous chapters of the Zhuangzi. The first emphasizes their "disorder" and "miscellaneousness" and fails to take into account a certain sort of consistency among them.