not-thereness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

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."
"In Bowen's work, thereness is uncomfortably close to not-thereness, being to non-being, presence to 'no-presence' (Friends, pp. 33, 91)."
"The comatose feel of Max, the pendulous not-thereness as he leaned onto me, now returned. "How did I screw up so bad?" I said."

From not there + -ness.

thereness

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