giveness

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noun

The act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.

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Meanings

noungiveness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.

    What position if any do these theorists take on the giveness of the self?

    2007, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Cognitive Justice in a Global World
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    The discrimination of embracing and rejecting vis-a-vis the world means a world that can no longer lord it over man in the legitimacy of its giveness; it means a break in the megalithicity of the world through whose threatening and totalitarian and opaque oneness […]

    1996, Aharon Ronald Ellis Agus, Hermeneutic Biography in Rabbinic Midrash

    Somehow, in some way, there is a resistance from the world, a giveness to the way things are, which provides some friction in relation to our beliefs about the world.

    2013, Christopher J. Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom: A Theological Problem

Origin

From give + -ness.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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