Aboutness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The relevance of a text to its reader. countable, uncountable
"The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design."
Example
More examples"The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design."
Etymology
From about + -ness.
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