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somewhereness

noun

Etymology

From somewhere + -ness.

  1. derived from *kʷ-✻
  2. inherited from *hwar✻
  3. inherited from *hwār✻
  4. inherited from hwǣr — “where”
  5. inherited from wher
  6. compounded as somewhere — “some + where”
  7. suffixed as somewhereness — “somewhere + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being in, occurring in, or belonging to a specific place.

    • For politics is defined by its somewhereness, its concrete historicity in the real world of human beings.

  2. The state or quality of existing in a place that is unknown or cannot be pinpointed.

    • […] Mary Merris had found it good to shed tears in this little, funny old room, wherein an old man who had looked on life had brought into being a beautiful faith in the essential somewhereness of God.

  3. The unique characteristics imparted on a wine by the conditions of the place in which it…

    The unique characteristics imparted on a wine by the conditions of the place in which it was grown.

    • Comparing them is an ideal lesson in California wine somewhereness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for somewhereness. 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