thoseness

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noun

The quality or characteristic of being those (something referred to).

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounthoseness (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountablehuman sciencesThe quality or characteristic of being those (something referred to).

    It was not a pleasant face , but there was certainly nothing to indicate his Thoseness.

    1994, Chapman Magazine (publisher), Chapman, Issues 76-79, page 53
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    viewer asks Barney , in the cause of news, ibid, why the thus of this thoseness, and Barney replies that he is taking out a girl who will soon be Hollywood's new sensation for a round of the early morning spots.

    1939, Bernard Molohon, Hollywood Date Bureau, page 102

    A sense of "thoseness" also facilitates descriptions of physical space such as, "one of those [un de ces] service staircases where obscene grafitti are scribbled outside the back doors of flats."

    2006, Johns Hopkins Press (publisher), Modern Language Notes, Volume 121, page 995

    the state of generality without substance (those-ness) against the state of phenomenal appearance (thisness, haeccitas).

    2009, Christopher Eagle, Cratylism and Its Discontents, Modernist Theories of the Perfect Language, page 79

    Eagle proposes that the Recherche stages a tension between a typological and a particularizing style, playing "the state of generality without substance (thoseness) against the state of phenomenal appearance (thisness, haeccitas)."

    2015, Hannah Freed-Thall, Spoiled Distinctions, Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism, page 158

    There is no difference between such two cliques of people except that these of theseness would arm themselves with guns and sticks, and those of thoseness would arm themselves with rosaries and miswaks.

    2024, Mohamed Abulinein, The Reflections, An English Translation of Mustafa Lutfi Al-Manfaluti’s ‘An-Naẓarāt’ – Part I

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