| 释义 |
whyness|ˈhwaɪnɪs|
[f. why adv. + -ness.]
That which causes a thing to be as it is; the essential reason for something. Cf. whatness.
1896R. Fry Lett. (1972) I. 116 You who..care nothing about the whyness of the what. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Oct. 765/3 But it is the whatness not the whyness of things that matters. 1950Mind LIX. 405 Logical empiricism indicates the ‘howness’ of the world, but not the ‘whyness’. 1962Time 11 May 70 Teacher Foote reports that -ness added to nouns, pronouns, verbs, and phrases—a custom thought until now to be mostly whimsical, as in whyness, and everydayness—has become popular among distinctly unjocose people. |