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somewhatness

somewhatness noun: the property of being a tangible or identifiable thing.

Noun

somewhatness (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The property of being a tangible or identifiable thing.
    • Energy doubtless "is," but it is not possessed of "somewhatness." The definitions of energy are all unsatisfactory; the most common one is that energy is the capacity for doing work.1903, The Electrical Review, volume 51, page 616
    • He grasps the fourfold emptiness disclosed in the words: "I am nowhere a somewhatness for any one, and nowhere for me is there a somewhatness of any one."Quoted in: 1998, Henry Clarke Warren, Buddhism in Translations (page 145)

Origin of somewhatness

From somewhat + -ness.

Questions about somewhatness

What does somewhatness mean?
Somewhatness means the property of being a tangible or identifiable thing.
What part of speech is somewhatness?
Somewhatness is a noun.

Words near somewhatness in the dictionary

  1. someway
  2. someways
  3. someweh
  4. somewhat
  5. somewhatly
  6. somewhatness
  7. somewhats
  8. somewhen
  9. somewhence
  10. somewhere
  11. somewhere along the line

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