withnessn.
/ˈwɪðnɪs/ rare.
The fact of being with some one or something; collocation, association.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > association
mating1621
withness1904
1904 W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism (1912) ii. 47 This imperfect intimacy, this bare relation of withness between some parts of the sum total of experience and other parts.
1907 W. James Pragmatism iv. 156 The lowest grade of universe would be a world of mere withness.
1912 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 99 This Withness, Together-withness, association,..brings us into the interior of the plan of the creation.
1929 A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality ii. ii. 88 The account..traces back these secondary qualities to their root in physical prehensions expressed by the ‘withness of the body’.
1946 Sci. & Society 10 244 Conversely union and withness, the ta-tong of Chinese thought, has been the aim of democracies.
1962 Times 11 Dec. 11/4 The ‘withness’ is all.
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