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whatness

noun

Etymology

From what + -ness.

  1. inherited from *kʷód✻
  2. inherited from *hwat✻
  3. inherited from *hwat✻
  4. inherited from hwæt
  5. inherited from what
  6. suffixed as whatness — “what + ness”

Definitions

  1. Essence

    Essence; quiddity.

  2. Quality

    Quality; quantity.

    • For in one sense whatness signifies substance and this particular thing, and in another sense it signifies each of the other categories, such as quantity, quality and the like.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whatness. 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