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noun

connectedness n.

The state of being connected.

Synonyms: connection.

A relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it).

Synonyms: connection, connexion.

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Etymology of 'Connectedness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Connectedness" Quotes from Famous Books

... eyewitness of that event, and he must also be aware that the very utmost which any of these writers can have KNOWN, was THAT CHRIST WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN. DEAD. It is strange to see Strauss so suddenly struck with the clearness, unanimity, and connectedness of the Evangelists. In the very next sentence he goes on to say, 'Equally fragmentary, full of contradiction and obscurity, is all that they tell us of the opportunities of observing him which his adherents are supposed to have had after his resurrection.' Now, this seems very unfair, ...

— The Fair Haven • Samuel Butler

... be smashed to pieces in order that a new world might arise out of chaos. I didn't know you, and I didn't think my own class too good to be tossed aside; they were only hindering the development. But you've converted me. I was a little too quick to condemn your slowness; you have more connectedness in you than I. Our little business in there has proved to me that the common people are wise to admit their heritage from and debt to the upper class. I'm sorry to see Peter running off the track; he's one of your more talented men. Couldn't we get him out here? He could have one of my ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... the subordinate party is as artfully dissimulated, throughout, as may be, and to that extent that, with the seams or joints of Maria Gostrey's ostensible connectedness taken particular care of, duly smoothed over, that is, and anxiously kept from showing as "pieced on;" this figure doubtless achieves, after a fashion, something of the dignity of a prime idea: which circumstance but shows us afresh how many quite incalculable ...

— The Ambassadors • Henry James

... than merely to show that the interpretation which I propose exhibits a better arrangement, and connection of the thoughts. The apostle may have written in haste, and that explanation of his meaning which attributes to him imperfect connectedness, may after all be the correct one. I shall therefore proceed to inquire whether some further light may not be thrown upon the subject, by a more minute investigation than I have yet attempted, of particular words and turns of expression in ...

— Spare Hours • John Brown