thoseness

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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9

Definition of thoseness

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (rare, uncountable)The quality or characteristic of being those (something referred to).
    “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.”
    “It was not a pleasant face , but there was certainly nothing to indicate his Those'''ness.”
    “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."”
    “the state of generality without substance (those-ness) against the state of phenomenal appearance (thisness, haeccitas).”
    “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)."”

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Etymology

From those + -ness.

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