The quality of being scattered, unfocused, or jumping from one thing to another without consistency or clear purpose.
From 'desultory' plus '-ness' to create an abstract noun expressing a quality or state. This word evolved from the Latin 'desultor' (circus jumper) to describe the character trait of disconnectedness.
The desultoriness of human attention is exactly why social media is so addictive—it's designed to trigger that same jumping-from-topic-to-topic impulse that ancient Romans associated with circus acrobats!
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