scatteration

From scatter +‎ -ation.

scatteration (countable and uncountable, plural scatterations)

1. A scattered arrangement.
   • 2009 August 16, David Gates, “Sensimilia and Sensibility”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Maybe there are still readers who can be stirred by such stale fancies as that seedlike scatteration of stars — does anybody except a writer in search of a metaphor really see stars that way?

• tetracations