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not-thereness

not-thereness noun: the quality of not being there; absence.

Noun

not-thereness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of not being there; absence.
    • ...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness.1983, Baruch Hochman, The test of character: from the Victorian novel to the modern
    • In Bowen's work, thereness is uncomfortably close to not-thereness, being to non-being, presence to 'no-presence' (Friends, pp. 33, 91).2001, Rod Mengham, N. H. Reeve, The fiction of the 1940s: stories of survival

Antonyms of not-thereness

Origin of not-thereness

From not there + -ness.

Questions about not-thereness

What does not-thereness mean?
Not-thereness means the quality of not being there; absence.
What part of speech is not-thereness?
Not-thereness is a noun.

Words near not-thereness in the dictionary

  1. not-for-profits
  2. not-pologies
  3. not-pology
  4. not-self
  5. not-so-hot
  6. not-thereness
  7. not-to-scale
  8. not.
  9. nota
  10. nota augens
  11. nota bene

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