Not-thereness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of not being there; absence. uncountable

    "...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness."

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"...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness."

Etymology

From not there + -ness.

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