Meanings
- uncountableThe state, quality, or condition of being or lasting indefinitely or always; continuity; indefiniteness; eternity.
It seems that 'alwaysness' can have its beginning and its end, or at least that 'alwaysness' can be conceived as once having begun and once having to end.
2007, Dirk Van Hulle, Mark Nixon, All Sturm and No Drang2 more examples
This sense of “alwaysness” is reproduced by the group in question through shared rememberings, notably the telling ofstories, an activity in which both women and men participate.
2007, Nancy Cook, Gender Relations in Global PerspectiveYet I loved her, so much, and still do, and always will, because that is love, the unending alwaysness, and I therefore wished only to please her, to reduce her absence, to pretend I was under the care of a fictitious shrink by the name of Dr.
2011, Tim O'Brien, Tomcat in Love
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alwaysness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alwaysness
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