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DIFFUSENESS n.
The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
DIFFUSER n.
One who, or that which, diffuses.
DIFFUSIBILITY n.
The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.
DIFFUSIBLE a. 2 definitions
Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
DIFFUSIBLENESS n.
Diffusibility.
DIFFUSION n. 2 definitions
The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion. A diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition. Burke.
DIFFUSIVE a.
Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse. "A plentiful and diffusive perfume." Hare.
DIFFUSIVELY adv.
In a diffusive manner.
DIFFUSIVENESS n.
The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison.
DIFFUSIVITY n.
Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.
DIREFUL a.
Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day. -- Dire"ful*ly, adv. -- Dire"ful*ness, n.
DIRGEFUL a.
Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.
DISCONTENTFUL a.
Full of discontent. [R.]
DISCORDFUL a.
Full of discord; contentious. [Obs.] "His discordful dame." Spenser.
DISDAINFUL a.
Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.
DISEASEFUL a. 2 definitions
Causing uneasiness. [Obs.] Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon.
DISEASEFULNESS n.
The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.
DISFURNISH v.
To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.
DISFURNISHMENT n.
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. Daniel.
DISFURNITURE n. 2 definitions
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished. [Obs.]
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