wherenessn.
/ˈhwɛːnɪs/ The condition, quality, or fact of being where it is; position, situation, location, ubi (as an attribute of something, or vaguely of things generally).
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun]
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1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 43 It would crack my brain to find so many whernesses there, to stow each of them in.
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra i. iii. §1 A Point..hath no Dimensions, but only a Whereness.
1733 I. Watts Philos. Ess. (1734) vi. v. 165 The Ubi or Whereness of a Spirit.
a1843 R. Southey Doctor (1847) VI. 264 I..can never be lost till I get out of Whereness itself into Nowhere.
1887 Mind Jan. 18 Any special whereness or thereness.
1895 G. MacDonald Lilith iii You know nothing about whereness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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