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howness

howness noun: the state or condition of how a person, object, or thing is.

Noun

howness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of how a person, object, or thing is.
    • Because every being is determined by the what and the how and is unveiled as a being in its whatness and howness, its being-what and being-how, the copula is necessarily ambiguous.1988, Martin Heidegger, The basic problems of phenomenology

Origin of howness

From how + -ness.

Questions about howness

What does howness mean?
Howness means the state or condition of how a person, object, or thing is.
What part of speech is howness?
Howness is a noun.

Words near howness in the dictionary

  1. howls at the moon
  2. howls down
  3. howls on
  4. howls out
  5. howly
  6. howness
  7. Howorth
  8. Howorths
  9. Howqua
  10. Howqua Hills
  11. Howqua Inlet

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