单词 | thereness |
释义 | therenessn. The condition or quality of being there; existence in a defined place. (Sometimes opposed to hereness.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > [noun] > fact of being here or there hereness1674 thereness1674 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 11 The all-fillingness of God, the herenesses and therenesses of ghosts, have been too much interwoven and twisted together. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 45 The thereness or hereness was nothing belonging unto God. 1887 W. James in Mind 12 18 Could that possibly be the feeling of any special whereness or thereness? a1898 J. Caird Fund. Ideas Christianity (1899) II. ix. 15 Hereness and thereness are incessantly passing out of and into each other. 1929 D. H. Lawrence in Catal. Exhib. Paintings Introd. fo. 7v All the host of other defiant..cats that have come back..to form and substance and thereness, instead of delicious nowhereness. 1958 Listener 20 Nov. 822/2 The immense Thereness of someone else. 1976 I. 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. 1983 J. Jones Dostoevsky i. 7 Its absurd yet maddening thereness like that of the pea under the mattress of the princess. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1674 |
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