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Meaning of giveness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.

uncountable

Examples

“The discrimination of embracing and rejecting vis-a-vis the world means a world that can no longer lord it over man in the legitimacy of its giveness; it means a break in the megalithicity of the world through whose threatening and totalitarian and opaque oneness […]”
“What position if any do these theorists take on the giveness of the self?”
“Somehow, in some way, there is a resistance from the world, a giveness to the way things are, which provides some friction in relation to our beliefs about the world.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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