rare1. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being sporadic.
1884. Whitney, in Amer. Jrnl. Philol., V. 287. This [the precative active] also, indeed, is rare even to sporadicalness, being, so far as I know, made from only about 60 roots in the whole languageand of these, only half can show forms containing the true precative s.
1898. G. W. Richards, in Ref. Ch. Rev., Ser. IV. II. 449. But even these geniuses of prophecy were a type of one to come. There was still an effort and a sporadicalness in their activity. They saw as through a glass darkly.
1909. Vermont Missionary, 1 March, 4/1. A clear consciousness of our utilized and mutualized abilities and possibilities as a denomination, when waste is stopped and unified endeavor takes the place of sporadicalness.