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What is the noun for discursiveness?

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discursion
  1. (obsolete, rare) The action of hurriedly moving hither and thither.
  2. (rare, figuratively) Digression.
  3. (rare) Ratiocination.
  4. (philosophy) step by step philosophic reasoning, as opposed to intuition (compare Iamblichus)
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I make this discursion because, for a period, the paths of the two composers were parallel.”
      “Its primary focus, after its discursion into assisted suicide and euthanasia, is on setting limits on individual autonomy.”
      “To be perceived as scholarly is to pile on the well-researched minutiae, and to lavish on readers a discursion of prior scholarship despite ample coverage in other articles.”
discursus
  1. (logic) argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning
  2. Examples:
    1. “A discursus on utopia follows, beginning with Georg Lukacs and Ernst Bloch on expressionism and proceeding to Marcuse.”
      “This discussion also includes a fascinating discursus on Raphael's tomb, planned by the artist himself, and its subsequent history.”
      “He offers a stimulating discursus on Apuleius' use of 'lepidus' and 'festivus' and their function in the repertoire of canonical classical authors.”
discursiveness
  1. The state or quality of being discursive.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Yet this discursiveness is not so irrelevant to the handful of pages which follow.”
      “If we're trying to be completely concept-free, with no discursiveness at all, it's just not going to happen.”
      “A bumpy discursiveness was always his method's mark, even his forte, but here it shows excessive wobble.”
discursivity
  1. The quality of being discursive.
discursivities
  1. plural of discursivity
discursions
discursuses
  1. plural of discursus
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