givennessn.
/ˈɡɪv(ə)nnəs/, U.S. /ˈɡɪvə(n)nəs/ The fact of being given or posited.
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givennessa1866
a1866 J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) 390 But in us reflective creatures, being and thinking, fact (or givenness) and self-formation (or self-improvement)..are mingled together in a complicated doubleness.
1895 B. Bosanquet Presid. Addr. in Proc. Aristotelian Soc. (1896) 3 ii. 10 Little more inference lies from the given-ness of Time in the Absolute, to the Absolute being in Time, than from the given-ness of colour in the Absolute to the Absolute having a colour.
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