单词 | primariness |
释义 | primarinessn. The quality or fact of being primary; primacy. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source or primitive or original form > quality of being primariness1687 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 448 That..which is peculiar and discriminative must be taken from the Primaryness or Secondaryness of the Perception. 1854 J. Ruskin Lect. Archit. Add. 121 A confusion of the idea of essentialness or primariness with the idea of nobleness. 1899 Mind 8 224 When once, however, this truth is firmly held, then it is impossible to dispute about the primariness of either past or present as original time-datum. 1931 J. H. Muirhead Platonic Trad. in Anglo-Saxon Philos. iii. vii. 388 He still commits himself dogmatically to the primariness of the element of uniqueness. 1978 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 15 Feb. b7/3 Primariness of each partner to the other—each being the other's most important person. 1993 ELH 60 1036 The descriptions one can offer lack accuracy precisely because, lacking the feeling of primariness, they do not correspond to primary experience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1687 |
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