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  • noun Absence of continuity.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ continuity

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Examples

  • Very much later though, mostly in response to Islamic occasionalism, the counterargu - ment was fashioned that it is noncontinuity and inde - terminacy which bespeak the absence of divine Provi - dence; and that it is continuity and causality in nature which testify to a rule by Providence and perhaps even to an original creation by a divine resolve.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • I'm all for noncontinuity stories as long as they're * clearly* labeled as such.

    Comic Book Resources 2010

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