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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The quality of not being utterly predictable; the specificity that characterizes an occurrence as meaningful. uncountable

   "When the present simply actualizes what had to happen, events lack eventness."

Example

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"When the present simply actualizes what had to happen, events lack eventness."

Etymology

Coined by Mikhail Bakhtin as event + -ness.

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