Not-thereness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Not-thereness is a noun meaning The quality of not being there; absence.
Meaning
The quality of not being there; absence.
Example Sentences
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.
In Bowen's work, thereness is uncomfortably close to not-thereness, being to non-being, presence to 'no-presence' (Friends, pp. 33, 91).
...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness.
Antonyms for not-thereness
Common opposites include thereness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include notness, neverness, thereness, nonreality, unusedness, nonphysicalness.
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