Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or fact of being next, or immediately near or contiguous; contiguity.
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- noun The fact or condition of
immediate succession orproximity ; thequality of beingnext .
Etymologies
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The Anglo-American cultural perspective is future-time oriented, or "nextness" oriented, to use a phrase coined by cultural diversity expert Tom Kochman.
Meetings Halfway 2006
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The Anglo-American cultural perspective is future-time oriented, or "nextness" oriented, to use a phrase coined by cultural diversity expert Tom Kochman.
Meetings Halfway 2006
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Union of various grades, union of diverse types, union that stops at non-conductors, union that merely goes from next to next, and means in many cases outer nextness only, and not a more internal bond, union of concatenation, in short; all that sort of thing seems to you a halfway stage of thought.
Pragmatism William James 1876
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