Aboutness

Quick meaning: Aboutness is a noun meaning The relevance of a text to its reader.

Meaning

The relevance of a text to its reader.

Example Sentences

The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design.

Movie critics provide a good example of aboutness judgments. When some critics rave and others pan, it is not because they have seen different physical texts; rather, all the technical knowledge, topical knowledge, emotions and beliefs of each critic are being engaged in the construction of a response to the physical text.

Word Forms

• aboutnesses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include relevancy, pertinency, relevance, pertinence, pertinentness, meaningness.

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