| 释义 |
thereness|ˈðɛənɪs|
[f. there + -ness.]
The condition or quality of being there; existence in a defined place. (Sometimes opposed to hereness.)
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 11 The all-fillingness of God, the herenesses and therenesses of ghosts, have been too much interwoven and twisted together. Ibid. 45 The thereness or hereness was nothing belonging unto God. 1887W. James in Mind XII. 18 Could that possibly be the feeling of any special whereness or thereness? 1899J. Caird Fundamental Ideas Chr. II. ix. 13 Hereness and thereness are incessantly passing out of and into each other. 1929D. H. Lawrence Paintings D.H.L. (Introd.) fo. 7 verso, All the host of other defiant..cats that have come back..to form and substance and thereness, instead of delicious nowhereness. 1958Listener 20 Nov. 822/2 The immense Thereness of someone else. 1976I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 196 All those would-be deep explanations are so abstract and so simple when confronted with the awful complex thereness of a relationship which has gone wrong. 1983J. Jones Dostoevsky i. 7 Its absurd yet maddening thereness like that of the pea under the mattress of the princess. |