单词 | somethingness |
释义 | somethingnessn. The fact or state of being something; real or material existence, entity. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] > reality or quality of being real reality1545 formality1570 trueness1604 realness1612 thatness1643 positivity1659 actualness1668 positiveness1668 thingsomeness1674 somethingness1675 thingship1697 authenticity1839 thingness1840 truth1842 isness1865 thinginess1891 1675 T. Duffett Mock-tempest v. ii. 46 The nothingness of the Mouse,..the somethingness, yea the fullness of hit. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 49 What an unusual share of somethingness in his whole appearance. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 204 A star falls, and we track a cold dark mass Of trembling half-transparent somethingness. 1890 Universal Rev. 15 June 247 The stages..have invariably been from a nothingness of ignorant impotence to a little somethingness of highly self-conscious, arduous performance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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