Scatteration

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A scattered arrangement. countable, uncountable

    "Maybe there are still readers who can be stirred by such stale fancies as that seedlike scatteration of stars — does anybody except a writer in search of a metaphor really see stars that way?"

Example

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"Maybe there are still readers who can be stirred by such stale fancies as that seedlike scatteration of stars — does anybody except a writer in search of a metaphor really see stars that way?"

Etymology

From scatter + -ation.

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