单词 | beingness |
释义 | beingnessn. The quality or state of existing, esp. as distinct from having particular attributes; entity, actuality. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] being1340 statec1384 essencion?a1400 existencea1425 essencya1475 existency1548 essentie1552 essence1576 entity1596 existing1616 esse1621 beingness1662 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike iv. 29 The Entity or Beingness of vertue and operation [L. de entitate, virtute ac operatione]. 1703 A. Bury Rational Deist i. iv. 28 As therefore the Father is Beingness in the Abstract, so is the Son Wisdom in the Abstract. 1785 J. Clark Self-annihilation 8 I Am, or Beingness, is the property of the great God alone. 1897 J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel (ed. 2) 374 One gets a vivid glance of the direct beingness which immediacy amounts to. 1933 Mind 42 319 It may be possible to isolate certain aspects of the Aristotelian doctrine of ‘beingness’ or essence which have an obvious affinity with the ideas connoted by the word ‘substance’. 1957 J. F. Horner Summary of Scientol. 57 The term, ‘Thetan’, refers to the single unit of beingness which each person is. 2004 Church Times 17 Dec. 15/1 A measurement may be presumed to favour the more functional ‘doing’ of the Evangelical tradition, leaving the more ontological ‘beingness’ of the Catholic tradition to be accorded little value. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1662 |
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