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单词 havingness
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havingnessn.

Brit. /ˈhavɪŋnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈhævɪŋnᵻs/
Forms: see having adj. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: having adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < having adj. + -ness suffix.Also in parasynthetic compounds, earliest in perfect havingness , after post-classical Latin perfectihabia (state of) having perfection (1557 in the passage translated) and its model ancient Greek ἐντελέχεια entelechy n.:1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. iii. sig. Ccc.ivv/1 God..by whome, in whome, and to whome all thinges are, being himselfe a perpetuall and most absolute ἔντελέχεια [sic], or perfect hauingnesse [L. perfectihabia].
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).
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