Howness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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