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giveness

giveness noun: the act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.

Noun

giveness (uncountable)

  1. The act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.
    • The discrimination of embracing and rejecting vis-a-vis the world means a world that can no longer lord it over man in the legitimacy of its giveness; it means a break in the megalithicity of the world through whose threatening and totalitarian and opaque oneness […]1996, Aharon Ronald Ellis Agus, Hermeneutic Biography in Rabbinic Midrash
    • What position if any do these theorists take on the giveness of the self?2007, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Cognitive Justice in a Global World

Origin of giveness

From give + -ness.

Questions about giveness

What does giveness mean?
Giveness means the act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.
What part of speech is giveness?
Giveness is a noun.

Words near giveness in the dictionary

  1. given way
  2. given weight
  3. given what for
  4. given with one hand and taken away with the other
  5. given-nameless
  6. giveness
  7. givenness
  8. givennesses
  9. givens
  10. giver
  11. giver-upper

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