Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being in, occurring in, or belonging to a specific place.
For politics is defined by its somewhereness, its concrete historicity in the real world of human beings.
1984, Benjamin R. Barber, Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 64 - uncountableThe state or quality of existing in a place that is unknown or cannot be pinpointed.
[…] Mary Merris had found it good to shed tears in this little, funny old room, wherein an old man who had looked on life had brought into being a beautiful faith in the essential somewhereness of God.
1928, Warwick Deeping, Old Pybus, Alfred A. Knopf, published 1928, page 230 - rareuncountableThe unique characteristics imparted on a wine by the conditions of the place in which it was grown.
Comparing them is an ideal lesson in California wine somewhereness.
2004, Matt Kramer, New California Wine: Making Sense of Napa Valley, Sonoma, Central Coast, and Beyond, Running Press, →ISBN, page 334
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