Firstness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Firstness is a noun meaning The quality of being first; originality; priority.
Meaning
The quality of being first; originality; priority.
Example Sentences
Firstness (in-itselfness, originality) helps to explain logico-cognitive processes and therefore, at once, the formation of signs.
But it was not swimming and boating again that pleased him. The joy of it was its firstness: never before had a boat rested on the waters of this world; never before had these children seen a human being swim.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include primity, priority, primacy, firsthood, primariness, beforeness.
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