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becomeness

becomeness noun: the state or quality of becoming.

Noun

becomeness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of becoming.
    • [...] was called founder, this memory which clung to recurrence and to becomeness, accordingly taught the most collected religion of extra-human repose.1995, Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope
    • Rootless, dead to the cosmic, irrevocably committed to stone and to intellectualism, it develops a form-language that reproduces even-trait of its essence - not the language of a becoming and growlh, but that of a becomeness and completion, [...]2001, Anthony McElligott, The German Urban Experience, 1900-1945

Origin of becomeness

From become + -ness.

Questions about becomeness

What does becomeness mean?
Becomeness means the state or quality of becoming.
What part of speech is becomeness?
Becomeness is a noun.

Words near becomeness in the dictionary

  1. become one with one's inner self
  2. become the Joker
  3. becomed
  4. becomeing
  5. becomen
  6. becomeness
  7. becomer
  8. becomers
  9. becomes
  10. becomes of
  11. becomes one flesh

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