What does firstness mean?
Firstness means The quality of being first; originality; priority.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The quality of being first; originality; priority.
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.
Firstness (in-itselfness, originality) helps to explain logico-cognitive processes and therefore, at once, the formation of signs.
Use firstness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Firstness means The quality of being first; originality; priority.
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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.
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