单词 | havingness |
释义 | havingnessn. rare. 1. Covetousness, possessiveness. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [noun] > inordinate desire of possessions greediness1154 greedilaikc1175 yissingc1275 covetise1297 covetingc1315 winningheadc1315 concupiscencec1340 avaricec1386 greedy worm1430 cupidity1436 covetousness1526 avariciousness1560 greed1609 an itching palma1616 gripulousness1633 havingness1646 avarition1661 my-ness1662 aviditya1680 gripingness1683 ingordigiousnessa1734 graspingness1747 accumulativeness1821 acquisitiveness1826 pleonexia1858 possessiveness1864 over-greed1867 appropriativeness1882 1646 J. Benbrigge Vsvra Accommodata 17 Mens Havingnesse..will be the onely Remora to this good work. 1934 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. S. Zweig Kaleidoscope viii. 271 The ‘havingness’ that makes the peasant so reluctant to surrender anything that has once been gripped. 1990 K. Taplin By Harbour Wall 61 You whose havingness dwindled to this pin point: that you felt a jealous anger when ‘your’ angel visited someone else. 2. The fact or state of having or possessing something. ΚΠ 1954 L. R. Hubbard Professional Auditor's Bull. 2 Apr. 1 The thetan who holds facsimiles to the body has chosen to have the energy in spite of the perceptions and significances in it... These conditions are remedied by remedying the ‘havingness’ of the thetan. 1964 W. S. Burroughs Nova Express 171 One assumes a ‘beingness’ where past crimes highlighted the direction of a ‘havingness’. 1996 W. A. Jordan Crossfire Educ. 84 Intellectual visionaries who were already moving into the next stage of thought, i.e., beingness rather than havingness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1646 |
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