fragmentariness
- noun
- /fræɡˈmɛntəˌrɪnəs/
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fragmentariedad
- The artist embraced the fragmentariness of her work, allowing incomplete shapes to convey deeper meanings.
Examples
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In literature, fragmentariness can enhance the storytelling by presenting moments that feel disjointed yet meaningful.
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The film's fragmentariness reflects the chaotic nature of the protagonist's memories, often leaving the audience puzzled.
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This means that with art you have fragmentariness and incompletion.
Academic text (2018) -
Still, fragmentary glimpses of a hand, a rod, or a sleeve become themselves half-magical versions of a puppet life, partly because of their very fragmentariness.
Academic text (1997) -
Certainly he did not want to acknowledge that this is as "transparent" or as "invisible" as one can possibly get, a charge usually leveled at conventional continuity editing's erasure of the fragmentariness of the production process.
Academic text (2009) -
This new approach, in the words of Seyla Benhabib, is to "break the chain of narrative continuity, to shatter chronology as the natural structure of narrative, to stress fragmentariness, historical dead ends, failures, and ruptures." (n21)
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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6.3
Breaking something into small pieces, often by force
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Lack of clear connection or order that makes something hard to follow
Speech that is not smooth and is hard to follow
Antonyms
How Fragmented
Surface Forms
Morphology
fragmentariness = fragmentary (transparent) = fragment + ary + ness
Derived by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'fragmentary'; the adjective itself transparently comes from 'fragment' + '-ary', so the overall derivation is predictable for learners.
Etymology
Fragmentariness comes from fragment, which means 'broken piece', and the ending -ness turns a word into 'the state or quality of'. So fragmentariness is the state of being made of broken or incomplete parts.