[f. as prec.] The quality or state of being unconnected.
1772. Mackenzie, Man World, I. xxix. She relapsed into her former unconnectedness.
1780. M. Madan, Thelyphthora (1781), I. 146. The marriage destroys their unconnectedness, distinctness, and independency on each other.
1837. Landor, Pentameron, 4th Day’s Interv., Wks. 1853, II. 339/2. The loose and shallow foundation of so vast a structure; its unconnectedness.
1877. ‘H. A. Page,’ De Quincey, II. xix. 168. Hence the unconnectedness, the obtrusive digressions and rangings from date to date.
