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worldness

worldness noun: the quality of being a world; existence as a world.

Noun

worldness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a world; existence as a world.
    • The finitude of There-being (finite transcendence) and the worldness of the World, in a sense, constitute an "atheistic" quality of this philosophy.1990, George Kovacs, The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology, page 62
    • The wretched other side of worldness is what is called globalization or the global market: reduction to the bare basics, the rush to the bottom, standardization, the imposition of multinational corporations[…]2002, M. Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Beyond Dichotomies, page 288

Origin of worldness

From world + -ness.

Questions about worldness

What does worldness mean?
Worldness means the quality of being a world; existence as a world.
What part of speech is worldness?
Worldness is a noun.

Words near worldness in the dictionary

  1. worldmaker
  2. worldmakers
  3. worldmaking
  4. worldmate
  5. worldmates
  6. worldness
  7. worldproof
  8. worldproofed
  9. worldproofing
  10. worldproofs
  11. worldquake

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