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- noun rare, philosophy The state or quality of having a
life .
Etymologies
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Examples
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LANG: But it has dire consequences on a planet where flexibility and kind of lifeness are really the keys.
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Is realism, "lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature?
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Wood's extolling of "lifeness" and character as key to "how fiction works" has resulted in much red-flagged response from those who favour avant garde experimentalism.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Is realism, "lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature?
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Wood's extolling of "lifeness" and character as key to "how fiction works" has resulted in much red-flagged response from those who favour avant garde experimentalism.
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The idea suggests the possibility of a perfect transmission from world to work, from life to "lifeness," as if the artistic medium could function like a clear pane of glass.
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… the possibility of a perfect transmission from world to work, from life to "lifeness," as if the artistic medium could function like a clear pane of glass.
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… the possibility of a perfect transmission from world to work, from life to "lifeness," as if the artistic medium could function like a clear pane of glass.
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… the possibility of a perfect transmission from world to work, from life to "lifeness," as if the artistic medium could function like a clear pane of glass.
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"lifeness" or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature?
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