somewhatness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

somewhat +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

somewhatness (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The property of being a tangible or identifiable thing.
    • 1903, The Electrical Review, volume 51, page 616:
      Energy doubtless "is," but it is not possessed of "somewhatness." The definitions of energy are all unsatisfactory; the most common one is that energy is the capacity for doing work.
    • Quoted in: 1998, Henry Clarke Warren, Buddhism in Translations (page 145)
      He grasps the fourfold emptiness disclosed in the words: "I am nowhere a somewhatness for any one, and nowhere for me is there a somewhatness of any one."
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