Meanings
nounsomewhatness (uncountable)
- archaicuncountableThe property of being a tangible or identifiable thing.
He grasps the fourfold emptiness disclosed in the words: "I am nowhere a somewhatness for any one, and nowhere for me is there a somewhatness of any one."
Quoted in: 1998, Henry Clarke Warren, Buddhism in Translations (page 145)1 more example
Energy doubtless "is," but it is not possessed of "somewhatness." The definitions of energy are all unsatisfactory; the most common one is that energy is the capacity for doing work.
1903, The Electrical Review, volume 51, page 616
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