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entityness

entityness noun: the quality of being an entity.

Noun

entityness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being an entity.
    • The issue of the languageness of the languages of art clears, moreover, if we turn from the aboutness of language to the special entityness of verbal-linguistic things, which, like art things, are entities just by virtue of being inferred as such from aspects of concreta filtered through a syntax...1970 August 20, Benjamin Boretz, “Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art from a Musical Point of View”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume LXVII, number 16, New York, N.Y.: The Journal of Philosophy...

Origin of entityness

From entity + -ness.

Questions about entityness

What does entityness mean?
Entityness means the quality of being an entity.
What part of speech is entityness?
Entityness is a noun.

Words near entityness in the dictionary

  1. entity-relationship diagram
  2. entity-relationship diagrams
  3. entity-relationship model
  4. entity-relationship models
  5. entitylike
  6. entityness
  7. ENTJ
  8. entjie
  9. entjies
  10. ENTJs
  11. Entlebucher

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