Itness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Existence as a particular (type of) thing with particular qualities. uncountable

    "Theatricality is foregrounded in the simple moment of pointing to an absence, as in the mask that points to itself as it advances. In this moment the itness of the I shows itself as what it is not in the act of self-reference."

Example

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"Theatricality is foregrounded in the simple moment of pointing to an absence, as in the mask that points to itself as it advances. In this moment the itness of the I shows itself as what it is not in the act of self-reference."

Etymology

From it + -ness.

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