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againness

noun

Etymology

From again + -ness.

  1. inherited from *in gagin✻
  2. inherited from *in gagin✻
  3. inherited from onġēan
  4. inherited from agayn
  5. suffixed as againness — “again + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being or happening again

    The quality of being or happening again; repetition.

    • Only on the hypothesis that what is learnt in one generation is remembered by the next, can there be any feeling of againness or of expectancy.
    • The quote suggests that enactment becomes recognized as reenactment, recognized as a matter of againness, through explicit theatricality.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for againness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA