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withness

noun

Etymology

From with + -ness.

  1. derived from við
  2. derived from *wiþrą✻ — “against”
  3. inherited from *wiþi✻
  4. inherited from wiþ — “against, opposite, toward, with”
  5. inherited from with
  6. suffixed as withness — “with + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being or doing with something.

    • Whitehead passionately denies this premise, and asserts repeatedly that the root of all perception is the "withness of the body." We see with our eyes; we taste with our palate.
    • Nonetheless, there is an incipient potentiality even here, where the step can move eventfully in a withness of movement moving that exceeds the predomination of the ground: the step can become a spiral.

The neighborhood

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