tablenessn.

Brit.

/ˈteɪblnəs/, U.S.

/ˈteɪbəlnəs/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: table n., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < table n. + -ness suffix, after post-classical Latin menseitas (Erasmus), itself after Hellenistic Greek τραπεζότης (Diogenes Laertius, citing Plato). Compare earlier tableity n.

Philosophy.

The essential nature of a table; the abstract quality of being a table; = tableity n.

ΚΠ

1853 C. D. Yonge tr. Diogenes Lives & Opinions Eminent Philosophers vi. 236 Plato made answer, ‘That is natural enough, for you have eyes, by which a cup and a table are contemplated; but you have not intellect, by which tableness and cupness are seen’.

1946 Mind 55 1 Legend has it that Diogenes remarked that he could see tables but not tableness, to which Plato retorted that although Diogenes had eyes he had no intelligence.

1984 Oxf. Rev. Educ. 10 172 If reality is by definition permanent, unchanging and unaffected by the standpoint of the observer..then of course this table upon which I write is not real, and the idea of tableness is.

2004 Church Times 9 July 9/1 The Court..debated whether St Stephens, Walbrook, could have a faculty for a Henry Moore altar, on the grounds that, as a solid piece of stone, it had nothing of ‘tableness’ about it.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tableness
释义	tablenessn. Brit. /ˈteɪblnəs/, U.S. /ˈteɪbəlnəs/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: table n., -ness suffix. Etymology: < table n. + -ness suffix, after post-classical Latin menseitas (Erasmus), itself after Hellenistic Greek τραπεζότης (Diogenes Laertius, citing Plato). Compare earlier tableity n. Philosophy. The essential nature of a table; the abstract quality of being a table; = tableity n. ΚΠ 1853 C. D. Yonge tr. Diogenes Lives & Opinions Eminent Philosophers vi. 236 Plato made answer, ‘That is natural enough, for you have eyes, by which a cup and a table are contemplated; but you have not intellect, by which tableness and cupness are seen’. 1946 Mind 55 1 Legend has it that Diogenes remarked that he could see tables but not tableness, to which Plato retorted that although Diogenes had eyes he had no intelligence. 1984 Oxf. Rev. Educ. 10 172 If reality is by definition permanent, unchanging and unaffected by the standpoint of the observer..then of course this table upon which I write is not real, and the idea of tableness is. 2004 Church Times 9 July 9/1 The Court..debated whether St Stephens, Walbrook, could have a faculty for a Henry Moore altar, on the grounds that, as a solid piece of stone, it had nothing of ‘tableness’ about it. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853
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