Meaning of not-thereness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of not being there; absence.

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Examples

“...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness.”

“In Bowen's work, thereness is uncomfortably close to not-thereness, being to non-being, presence to 'no-presence' (Friends, pp. 33, 91).”

“The comatose feel of Max, the pendulous not-thereness as he leaned onto me, now returned. "How did I screw up so bad?" I said.”

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