Meaning of thoseness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality or characteristic of being those (something referred to).

rare, uncountable

Examples

“viewer asks Barney , in the cause of news, ibid, why the thus of this thoseness, and Barney replies that he is taking out a girl who will soon be Hollywood's new sensation for a round of the early morning spots.”

“It was not a pleasant face , but there was certainly nothing to indicate his Those'''ness.”

“A sense of "thoseness" also facilitates descriptions of physical space such as, "one of those [un de ces] service staircases where obscene grafitti are scribbled outside the back doors of flats."”

“the state of generality without substance (those-ness) against the state of phenomenal appearance (thisness, haeccitas).”

“Eagle proposes that the Recherche stages a tension between a typological and a particularizing style, playing "the state of generality without substance (thoseness) against the state of phenomenal appearance (thisness, haeccitas)."”

“There is no difference between such two cliques of people except that these of theseness would arm themselves with guns and sticks, and those of thoseness would arm themselves with rosaries and miswaks.”

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