actionness

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noun

The property of being an action.

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Meanings

nounactionness (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe property of being an action.

    Thus despite the usefulness of the noun 'agency' to describe actionness, and the ubiquity of the 'agency–structure debate' […]

    2015, Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century
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    That action which, upon being performed, does not prejudicially affect its agent is deemed to have lost its nature of 'actionness' (karmatva) as well as its binding force (bandhakatva).

    2006, Shrinivas Tilak, Understanding Karma

Origin

From action + -ness.

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APA

actionness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/actionness

MLA

“actionness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/actionness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “actionness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/actionness.

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