thereness
- noun
- /ˈθɛrənəs/
- Formal
:
presencia
- "Amazing," his daughter said, seeking to read his thoughts, "how the not-thereness remains so haunting.
Examples
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Godzieba's project transcends theology and philosophy and moves into the field of aesthetics in that all sorts of "texts," including God, human beings, art, and even space, are made more interesting and complex when read within a Catholic sacramental imagination that is not merely about hereness or thereness, but about the constant negotiation between the two.
Academic text (2006) -
The phenomenologist will have to confront the cultural aspect of the "always already thereness" of the intentional world.
Academic text (1992) -
They had lost their quotidian quality, their thereness, and consequently, to my eye, their dignity.
Fiction book (1991) -
In any case, she had detached herself from me, and I felt her absence as surely as I had once felt her thereness, her everness, her absolute and indestructible love.
Fiction book (1999) -
A state could do worse than to play America in microcosm, to offer a hodgepodge so thoroughly and weirdly jumbled that its very "thereness" lies beyond recovery.
Academic text (2001) -
Back at Willie's peeling clapboard house on Stanton Street, just inside the front door, she turned on me with a wicked smile and a fulsome thereness and crooked her finger under my nose.
Fiction book (1993) -
In fact, realization of the brute "thereness" of what we believe frees us to not have to worry ourselves over what is true; these events that constitute the life forms of our beliefs are irrevocably there and they aren't going anywhere.
Blog text (9) -
The beautiful park has a special thereness that draws visitors to its serene environment.
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The thereness of the ancient ruins captivated the tourists, making them feel connected to history.
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In moments of silence, the thereness of the forest made me appreciate nature's beauty.
Synonyms
951
2.1
Being in a particular place or situation
838
2.8
The state of being real or alive
1
9.9
A state of existing
1
9.9
A feeling that something is there even if you cannot see it
A state of being in one place
Where something is and how that place matters
The fact of existing as a quality inside something
Antonyms
How Present
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thereness comes from the common word there, meaning 'in that place', plus the ending -ness, meaning 'state or quality'. So thereness is the 'quality of being present' in a place, which is why we use it to talk about how real or present something feels.