Sentence:  Each thing was seen on its own. The walls had to be a most tender shade of washed out coral. And the carpet had to be the kind of green that is almost grey, the flowers were arranged bowl by bowl, vase by vase, and though each was lovely in itself, there was no general beauty in the room. ¶ Unknown to her the ‘<WSD>bittiness</WSD>' that resulted gave to the salon a certain informality far from her intentions. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The quality of being bitty; fragmentedness.