thereness

(ˈðɛənəs)

(Philosophy) the quality of having existence or of being there

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Noun	1.	thereness - real existence; "things are really there...capture the thereness of them"--Charles Hopkinson presence - the state of being present; current existence; "he tested for the presence of radon"
	2.	thereness - the state of being there--not here--in position presence - the state of being present; current existence; "he tested for the presence of radon" hereness - the state of being here in this place

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inside the atrium caught in the letter and toward me qua thereness

The Letter

The inexplicable thereness of a Vija Celmins--rendered image or object is difficult to parse.

PREVIEWS

Francis Bacon, for instance, called wonder "broken knowledge." What gets lost in this reduction, though, is a deeper sense of wonder at the mystery of being, wonder at the sheer thereness of it all, at there being something rather than nothing.

Encountering the Beautiful

Certainly, this final contribution to this volume demonstrates the life-affirming truth that "instilling love for our people" means a day-to-day religious thereness of mutual ties in family and community.

RELIGION, POLITICAL DEMOCRACY, AND SPECTERS OF RACE

The accurate translation according to Heidegger, however, would be a set of significations comprising 'home stead', at-homeness, a standing in and by itself, a self enclosedness, an integral presentness or thereness (German; Anwesen).

Leaping-in and leaping-ahead: an exploration of Heidegger's notion of solicitude

surprise of poetry, its Tightness and thereness" (192).

The Poetry of Tennis

Everywhere in the world there's what the painter Frank Auerbach says is 'the recalcitrant, inescapable thereness of everyday objects' so anywhere in the world can be fascinating.

Northumberland can be a county of sanctuary; COLUMNIST

"Thereness:" Implications of Heidegger's "presence" for Maori.

"Papatuanuku/Papa:" some thoughts on the oppositional grounds of the doctoral experience

In a film, the narrator can partially control the verbal track--through voiceover or character dialogue--but that control is subject to innumerable constraints: the presence of other characters/performers and voices, the palpable and distracting "thereness" of decor and objects and so forth.

Dodging and embracing young adulthood in Kevin Major's Hold Fast and Justin Simms's film adaptation: "Run, Run, you crazy fool of a son"

As Peter Brooks has noted, the description of things like fruit, furniture, and decorative objects--the stuff of still-life painting--is "sometimes maddeningly" typical of the novel, where it serves as a reality effect meant "to give a sense of the thereness of the physical world, as in a still-life painting" (16).

Still life in motion: mortal form in Woolf's to the Lighthouse