whynessn.

/ˈhwʌɪnɪs/

Etymology: < why adv., int., and n. + -ness suffix.

That which causes a thing to be as it is; the essential reason for something. Cf. whatness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > causes

material cause1393

final cause1587

vera causa1831

teleocracy1882

whyness1896

1896 R. Fry Lett. (1972) I. 166 You who..care nothing about the whyness of the what.

1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Oct. 765/3 But it is the whatness not the whyness of things that matters.

1950 Mind 59 405 Logical empiricism indicates the ‘howness’ of the world, but not the ‘whyness’.

1962 Time 11 May 70 Teacher Foote reports that -ness added to nouns, pronouns, verbs, and phrases—a custom thought until now to be mostly whimsical, as in whyness, and everydayness—has become popular among distinctly unjocose people.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	whyness
释义	whynessn. /ˈhwʌɪnɪs/ Etymology: < why adv., int., and n. + -ness suffix. That which causes a thing to be as it is; the essential reason for something. Cf. whatness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > causes material cause1393 final cause1587 vera causa1831 teleocracy1882 whyness1896 1896 R. Fry Lett. (1972) I. 166 You who..care nothing about the whyness of the what. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Oct. 765/3 But it is the whatness not the whyness of things that matters. 1950 Mind 59 405 Logical empiricism indicates the ‘howness’ of the world, but not the ‘whyness’. 1962 Time 11 May 70 Teacher Foote reports that -ness added to nouns, pronouns, verbs, and phrases—a custom thought until now to be mostly whimsical, as in whyness, and everydayness—has become popular among distinctly unjocose people. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1896
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