What does not-thereness mean?
Not-thereness means The quality of not being there; absence..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The quality of not being there; absence..
...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness.
In Bowen's work, thereness is uncomfortably close to not-thereness, being to non-being, presence to 'no-presence' (Friends, pp. 33, 91).
The comatose feel of Max, the pendulous not-thereness as he leaned onto me, now returned. "How did I screw up so bad?" I said.
Use not-thereness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Not-thereness means The quality of not being there; absence..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include thereness.
...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness.
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