firstness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Uncountable

"But it was not swimming and boating again that pleased him. The joy of it was its firstness: never before had a boat rested on the waters of this world; never before had these children seen a human being swim."
"Firstness (in-itselfness, originality) helps to explain logico-cognitive processes and therefore, at once, the formation of signs."

From first + -ness.

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