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whereness|ˈhwɛənɪs|
[f. where + -ness: cf. hereness, thereness.]
The condition, quality, or fact of being where it is; position, situation, location, ubi (as an attribute of something, or vaguely of things generally).
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 43 It would crack my brain to find so many whernesses there, to stow each of them in. 1701Grew Cosmol. i. iii. 11 A Point..hath no Dimensions, but only a Whereness. 1733Watts Philos. Ess. vi. v. (1734) 165 The Ubi or Whereness of a Spirit. a1843Southey Doctor cxcii. (1848) 509, I..can never be lost till I get out of Whereness itself into Nowhere. 1887Mind Jan. 18 Any special whereness or thereness. 1895G. Macdonald Lilith iii, You know nothing about whereness. |