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personness

noun

Etymology

From person + -ness.

  1. derived from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 — “mask”
  2. derived from persōna — “mask used by actor; role, part, character”
  3. derived from parsone
  4. inherited from persoun
  5. suffixed as personness — “person + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state, quality, or condition of a person

    The state, quality, or condition of a person; personality; individuality; personhood; personableness.

    • I think if we talk about children and wanting a child-oriented society, then the judiciary and legislature have to address themselves to the personness of children. Personness means you are a legal entity in and of yourself.
    • This is a trust that the personness that is our identity is a better symbol of the ultimate than words like “cold” and “dark” and “aimless” and “meaningless.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for personness. 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