dispersiveness

Unhappily, literature has too often been identified with the smirks and affectations of mere elegant dispersiveness, with the hollow niceties of the virtuoso, a thing of madrigals.

Voltaire 2007

The characteristic of his activity is dispersiveness.

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

The characteristic of his activity is dispersiveness.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880

For once, and it is almost to be feared for the last time in his life, he had resisted his besetting tendency to dispersiveness, and constrained his intelligence to apply itself to one thing at a time.

English Men of Letters: Coleridge 1871