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besideness

besideness noun: the quality of being beside.

Noun

besideness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being beside.
    • Clearly, matching is a necessary condition for besideness in a category, since if two qualia of a category fail to match there is still an M-path joining them and consequently one or more qualia lying between them.1977, Nelson Goodman, The Structure of Appearance

Origin of besideness

From beside + -ness.

Questions about besideness

What does besideness mean?
Besideness means the quality of being beside.
What part of speech is besideness?
Besideness is a noun.

Words near besideness in the dictionary

  1. Besicovitch sets
  2. beside
  3. beside oneself
  4. beside the mark
  5. beside the point
  6. besideness
  7. besides
  8. besides oneself
  9. besides the point
  10. besiegable
  11. besiege

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