Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. rare, philosophy The state or quality of having a life.
Etymologies
- From life + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“LANG: But it has dire consequences on a planet where flexibility and kind of lifeness are really the keys.”
“Is realism, "lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature?”
“Wood's extolling of "lifeness" and character as key to "how fiction works" has resulted in much red-flagged response from those who favour avant garde experimentalism.”
“The idea suggests the possibility of a perfect transmission from world to work, from life to "lifeness," as if the artistic medium could function like a clear pane of glass.”
“… the possibility of a perfect transmission from world to work, from life to "lifeness," as if the artistic medium could function like a clear pane of glass.”
“lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature?”
“These child glimpses are of other-worldness, of other-lifeness, of things that you had never seen in this particular world of your particular life.”
“R.I.P. MCS (referring to the low-lifeness and immaturity that infests recently)”
“Log in to Reply boxzor (UID#2398) on September 5th, 2009 at 5: 46 am serious irony, does casemods not realize that he is inface this “low-lifeness and immaturity” of which he speaks?”
“Even the most unrealistic works of fiction, Wood claims, owe a debt to realism, because the emotional ‘truth’ of any story — what Wood refers to as ‘lifeness’ — results from its likeness, literal or metaphorical, to real life.”
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