entityness

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noun

The quality of being an entity.

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Meanings

nounentityness (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe quality of being an entity.
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    The issue of the languageness of the languages of art clears, moreover, if we turn from the aboutness of language to the special entityness of verbal-linguistic things, which, like art things, are entities just by virtue of being inferred as such from aspects of concreta filtered through a syntax and a semantics.

    1970 August 20, Benjamin Boretz, “Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art from a Musical Point of View”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume LXVII, number 16, New York, N.Y.: The Journal of Philosophy, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 552

Origin

From entity + -ness.

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