actionness

English

Etymology

action +‎ -ness

Noun

actionness (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy, linguistics) The property of being an action.
    • 2006, Shrinivas Tilak, Understanding Karma
      That action which, upon being performed, does not prejudicially affect its agent is deemed to have lost its nature of 'actionness' (karmatva) as well as its binding force (bandhakatva).
    • 2015, Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century
      Thus despite the usefulness of the noun 'agency' to describe actionness, and the ubiquity of the 'agency–structure debate' […]

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