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aboutnesses

aboutnesses is the plural of aboutness.

Meaning of aboutness

Noun

aboutness (countable and uncountable, plural aboutnesses)

  1. The relevance of a text to its reader.
    • The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design.1982, William Cadbury, Leland A. Poague, Film Criticism: A Counter Theory, →ISBN, page 19

Questions about aboutnesses

What is aboutnesses the plural of?
Aboutnesses is the plural of aboutness.

Words near aboutnesses in the dictionary

  1. aboute
  2. abouted
  3. aboutes
  4. abouting
  5. aboutness
  6. aboutnesses
  7. abouts
  8. aboutsledge
  9. aboutsledges
  10. aboutta
  11. above

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