withness

English

Etymology

with +‎ -ness

Noun

withness (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The quality of being or doing with something.
   • 2000, Sharon Warner, Experiencing the Knowing of Faith, page 113:

     Whitehead passionately denies this premise, and asserts repeatedly that the root of all perception is the "withness of the body." We see with our eyes; we taste with our palate.

   • 2009, Eric Manning, Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy, page 6:

     Nonetheless, there is an incipient potentiality even here, where the step can move eventfully in a withness of movement moving that exceeds the predomination of the ground: the step can become a spiral.