howness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From how +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

howness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of how a person, object, or thing is.
    • 1988, Martin Heidegger, The basic problems of phenomenology:
      Because every being is determined by the what and the how and is unveiled as a being in its whatness and howness, its being-what and being-how, the copula is necessarily ambiguous.
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