Objectness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being an object

    "As a result objects that "should" dominate in Sekiguchi's work instead look strangely anomalous, as if the painter found these isolated things--steaks cut from an animal, an eye separate from the rest of a human figure--to be almost funny in their assertive objectness."

Example

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"As a result objects that "should" dominate in Sekiguchi's work instead look strangely anomalous, as if the painter found these isolated things--steaks cut from an animal, an eye separate from the rest of a human figure--to be almost funny in their assertive objectness."

Etymology

From object + -ness.

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