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notness

noun

Etymology

From not + -ness.

  1. derived from *nōht,nāht✻ — “nought, nothing”
  2. derived from not,nat
  3. suffixed as notness — “not + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of not being

    The state of not being; nonexistence.

    • For Heidegger, it is in the notness of nonbeing that we find the possibility for understanding an object, not simply as something other than some other sensible object but also as the being that is other than being.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for notness. 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