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outstandingness

outstandingness noun: the quality or condition of being outstanding.

Noun

outstandingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or condition of being outstanding.
    • The tendency of the awake ego to advert to and attend an outstandingness which stimulates it may be more or less inhibited. The ego may strive toward but be unable to attend the object, or once the ego is attending the object, its tendency to continue attending it may be inhibited, e.g. by the...2012, Dorion Cairns, The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl

Origin of outstandingness

From outstanding + -ness.

Questions about outstandingness

What does outstandingness mean?
Outstandingness means the quality or condition of being outstanding.
What part of speech is outstandingness?
Outstandingness is a noun.

Words near outstandingness in the dictionary

  1. outstand
  2. outstander
  3. outstanders
  4. outstanding
  5. outstandingly
  6. outstandingness
  7. outstandings
  8. outstands
  9. outstank
  10. outstare
  11. outstared

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