Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of having location, situation, or existence with respect to some specified point or place.
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- noun philosophy The quality of being
there , or in some place;presence ;existence .
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- noun the state of being there--not here--in position
- noun real existence
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a "thereness" to the action, fleeting and fantastical but somehow also grounded and natural.
Jose Antonio Vargas: With "Avatar," Technology Has Never Looked So Human in Film (VIDEO) 2009
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In Antonello's work - and there are fewer than 40 paintings which are indisputably his - there's a special Sicilian sense of thereness which is without measure, which refuses moderation or self-protection.
New Statesman 2009
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In the words of one Japanese garden designer, the scene must lose its "thereness" so as to put the viewer into the frame.
Not PC 2008
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In the words of one Japanese garden designer, the scene must lose its "thereness" so as to put the viewer into the frame.
Not PC 2008
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In the words of one Japanese garden designer, the scene must lose its "thereness" so as to put the viewer into the frame.
Not PC 2008
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In the words of one Japanese garden designer, the scene must lose its "thereness" so as to put the viewer into the frame.
Not PC 2008
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In the words of one Japanese garden designer, the scene must lose its "thereness" so as to put the viewer into the frame.
Not PC 2008
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If the prospect of a minister running the country by Blackberry seems frightening, the strangely unthere-thereness of Environment Minister Hilary Benn's appearance this week is surely worse.
Archive 2009-08-01 Thatsnews 2009
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If the prospect of a minister running the country by Blackberry seems frightening, the strangely unthere-thereness of Environment Minister Hilary Benn's appearance this week is surely worse.
Wednesday lunchtime update Thatsnews 2009
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Verstehen basically means ‘thereness’, ‘openness to experience’, or ‘primordial comprehendability’.
enowning enowning 2009
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