Word.ws English Dictionary

whateverness

whateverness noun: apathetic meaninglessness; a state in which something does not matter or is not cared about.

Noun

whateverness (uncountable)

  1. Apathetic meaninglessness; a state in which something does not matter or is not cared about.
    • Without Mind there are only meaningless electrons whirling in whateverness. Not even so much as that, for it is Mind that identifies the meaningless whateverness and cries out, "Electrons!"1992, James Dillet Freeman, The hilltop heart: reflections of a practical mystic, page 33
    • particular one of those predicates (being-masculine, being- American, e.g.) exposes a relation between a real being and an empty totality, a nonthing, or nothing that renders this real being a whateverness.1999, Thomas Carl Wall, Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 125

Origin of whateverness

From whatever + -ness.

Questions about whateverness

What does whateverness mean?
Whateverness means apathetic meaninglessness; a state in which something does not matter or is not cared about.
What part of speech is whateverness?
Whateverness is a noun.

Words near whateverness in the dictionary

  1. whatever's
  2. whateverism
  3. whateverisms
  4. whateverist
  5. whateverists
  6. whateverness
  7. whatevers
  8. whateversexual
  9. whateversexuals
  10. Whateversville
  11. Whateverville

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whateverness (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: “whateverness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/whateverness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.