Word.ws English Dictionary

pregivenness

pregivenness noun: the quality or state of being pregiven.

Noun

pregivenness (countable and uncountable, plural pregivennesses)

  1. The quality or state of being pregiven.
    • The process of questioning back displaces the emphasis in phenomenology from an inquiry into modes of givenness, which assumes that there can be a simple starting point, to an inquiry into modes of pregivenness.1995, Anthony J. Steinbock, Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology After Husserl, page 83
    • It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.2002, Thomas R. West, Signs of Struggle, page 23

Forms of pregivenness

pluralpregivennesses

Origin of pregivenness

From pregiven + -ness.

Questions about pregivenness

What does pregivenness mean?
Pregivenness means the quality or state of being pregiven.
What part of speech is pregivenness?
Pregivenness is a noun.
What is the plural of pregivenness?
The plural of pregivenness is pregivennesses.

Words near pregivenness in the dictionary

  1. preggies
  2. preggo
  3. preggos
  4. preggy
  5. pregiven
  6. pregivenness
  7. pregivennesses
  8. Pregl
  9. preglabellar
  10. preglacial
  11. preglenoid

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pregivenness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pregivenness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pregivenness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.