thereness
IPA: ðɛrnʌs
noun
- (philosophy) The quality of being there, or in some place; presence; existence.
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Examples of "thereness" in Sentences
- Verstehen basically means ‘thereness’, ‘openness to experience’, or ‘primordial comprehendability’.
- There's a "thereness" to the action, fleeting and fantastical but somehow also grounded and natural.
- In the words of one Japanese garden designer, the scene must lose its "thereness" so as to put the viewer into the frame.
- If the prospect of a minister running the country by Blackberry seems frightening, the strangely unthere-thereness of Environment Minister Hilary Benn's appearance this week is surely worse.
- In Antonello's work - and there are fewer than 40 paintings which are indisputably his - there's a special Sicilian sense of thereness which is without measure, which refuses moderation or self-protection.
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