Howness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state or condition of how a person, object, or thing is. uncountable
"Because every being is determined by the what and the how and is unveiled as a being in its whatness and howness, its being-what and being-how, the copula is necessarily ambiguous."
Example
More examples"Because every being is determined by the what and the how and is unveiled as a being in its whatness and howness, its being-what and being-how, the copula is necessarily ambiguous."
Etymology
From how + -ness.
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