Aboutness

/əˈbaʊt.nəs/

Synonyms for "aboutness" (3 found)

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subject matter

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central thememain ideasubject mattertext topictopic focus

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The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design.

Source: wiktionary

Movie critics provide a good example of aboutness judgments. When some critics rave and others pan, it is not because they have seen different physical texts; rather, all the technical knowledge, topical knowledge, emotions and beliefs of each critic are being engaged in the construction of a response to the physical text.

Source: wiktionary

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