Wordness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being a word or words. uncountable

    "The move from purely descriptive, outward directive, writing toward writing centered on its wordness, its physicality, its haecceity (thisness) is, in its impulse, an investigation of human self-sameness, […]"

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"The move from purely descriptive, outward directive, writing toward writing centered on its wordness, its physicality, its haecceity (thisness) is, in its impulse, an investigation of human self-sameness, […]"

Etymology

From word + -ness.

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