Withness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Withness is a noun meaning (philosophy) The quality of being or doing with something.
Meaning
(philosophy) The quality of being or doing with something.
Example Sentences
Whitehead passionately denies this premise, and asserts repeatedly that the root of all perception is the "withness of the body." We see with our eyes; we taste with our palate.
Nonetheless, there is an incipient potentiality even here, where the step can move eventfully in a withness of movement moving that exceeds the predomination of the ground: the step can become a spiral.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include throughness, witfulness, beingness, thusness, willedness, wantedness.
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