Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of almost being something, or almost reaching a point; incomplete state.
The situation of beauty described here in the most abstract possible way involves a striking, we might almost say teasing, almostness: the object is a form, not a sensation or representation; it tickles reflexivity[…]
1997, Henry Sussman, The aesthetic contract1 more example
Each body is in this sense two bodies […] or a kind of double helix where two opposite sides of one ribbon touch and describe a circle of time and space, a here and now, an entry into worldness. Or, rather, in the case of the animate human body, almost touch, almost close into a circle, and this almostness is equally essential to the possibility of worldness.
2009, Carol E. Henderson, America and the black body
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almostness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/almostness
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