Somewhatness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Somewhatness is a noun meaning (archaic) The property of being a tangible or identifiable thing.
Meaning
(archaic) The property of being a tangible or identifiable thing.
Example Sentences
He grasps the fourfold emptiness disclosed in the words: "I am nowhere a somewhatness for any one, and nowhere for me is there a somewhatness of any one."
Energy doubtless "is," but it is not possessed of "somewhatness." The definitions of energy are all unsatisfactory; the most common one is that energy is the capacity for doing work.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include somethingness, thisness, thinginess, thingness, tangibility, thatness.
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