destructedness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

destructed +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

destructedness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state or condition of being destructed.
    • 1989, Snow Lion Publications, Cutting Through Appearances: The Practice and Theory of Tibetan Buddhism[1]:
      The three times The definition of a pastness [of an object] is: that state of destructedness [which exists] in the next period after the time of an object — the object being a [functioning] thing that is other [than its own pastness].