whonessn.
/ˈhuːnɪs/ rare.
1. That which makes a person who he is.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > of a person
whoness1922
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 376 All [is] hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness.
2. The state of being an isolated individual.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [noun] > isolation
isolation1833
social isolation1833
apartness1858
whoness1931
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 May 422/4 A crisis of spiritual rebirth in which the personal will submit only after long struggle to an ineluctable impersonal destiny..thus escaping from the anguish of ‘whoness’..into the peace of ‘wholeness’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1922- permanence
- permanences
- permanencies
- permanency
- permanent
- permanent air
- permanent alimony
- permanent blue
- permanent cartilage
- permanent characterization
- permanent dye
- permanent five
- permanent five members
- permanent gas
- permanent hardness
- permanent health insurance
- permanent ink
- permanent loan
- permanent magnet
- permanent magnetism
- permanent marker
- permanent marker pen
- permanent meadow
- permanent pasture
- permanent press