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ˈsomethingness
[f. as something n. + -ness.]
The fact or state of being something; real or material existence, entity.
1675T. Duffet Mock Tempest v. i, The nothingness of the Mouse,..the somethingness, yea the fullness of it. 1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. xiv, What an unusual share of somethingness in his whole appearance! 1839–48Bailey Festus xix. 204 A star falls, and we track a cold dark mass Of trembling half-transparent somethingness. 1890Universal Rev. 15 June 247 The stages..have invariably been from a nothingness of ignorant impotence to a little somethingness of highly self-conscious, arduous performance. |