Eventness

Quick meaning: Eventness is a noun meaning The quality of not being utterly predictable; the specificity that characterizes an occurrence as meaningful.

Meaning

The quality of not being utterly predictable; the specificity that characterizes an occurrence as meaningful.

Example Sentences

The experience of “eventness” has to do with the element of suspense.

When the present simply actualizes what had to happen, events lack eventness.

Still, certain programmatic commitments [of avant-garde art] can be identified: championing the volatile eventness of corporeal performances, foregrounding themes, materials, and actions derived from any place or period save that of established art world, […]

But to extricate a thought, utterance, or deed from the contingency and particularity of its occurrence is precisely to transcribe away its eventness, that is to say, its living, unpredetermined quality, its concrete situatedness in time and place, and the particularized meaning attendant on this unsystematizable, uncodifiable specificity.

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