Definitions
Etymologies
- what + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The sense of "something there" accompanies our sense perceptions, vouching for the "whatness" of things.”
“Rather than arguing that things convey their reality to percipients which would imply that we recognize as real only those things possessed of "whatness", James argues that the sense of reality is a constituent part of the percipient's experience that may in fact be independent of the object of that experience.”
“He nodded so I continued, in this ugly new voice, to ask him about the skin and bones and the whatness of this place and if I'd opened the door to hell and he said, finally, this wasn't hell.”
“To my parents, Bernie and Kay, for showing me what “no matter whatness” really ought to look like.”
“The “no matter whatness” of God dissolves the toxicity of shame and fills us with tender mercy.”
“You never stop asking, and sometimes the “no matter whatness” prevails.”
“And yet we decided, with all the “no matter whatness” we could muster, that she would give up on us long before we would ever give up on her.”
“To this end, one hopes against all human inclination to model not the “one false move” God but the “no matter whatness” of God.”
“The later Heidegger clarifies that the thinking that begins with Being and Time is neither directed to being in a metaphysical sense the whatness or thatness of things nor directed to the human being in an existential-phenomenological sense.”
“Medieval metaphysics in particular Thomas Aquinas focused on the whatness or quidditas as the subject of ontology, but this is already a significant narrowing of the horizon of the original Aristotelean definition which leaves open many ways of thinking to proceed INCLUDING the possibility of not giving Whatness the priority, let alone the exclusive signification, among the various possible meanings of being.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whatness’.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
refectory, soutane, ha-ha, jewelly, girt, centenary, collywobbles, coadjutor, catafalque, beeftea, pierhead, bedad and 235 more...
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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lethological cathexis
smeggo's concatenation
saxicolous, sisyphean, sibboleth, sibilance, zetetic, hemidemisemiquaver, quaquaversal, cathexis, floccipaucinihili..., lethologica, bathetic, jactitation and 57 more...
Tweets
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smeggo The thisness or thatness of a thing. Oct 15, 2008