not-thereness

English

Etymology

not there +‎ -ness

Noun

not-thereness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of not being there; absence.
    • 1983, Baruch Hochman, The test of character: from the Victorian novel to the modern
      ...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness.
    • 2001, Rod Mengham, N. H. Reeve, The fiction of the 1940s: stories of survival
      In Bowen's work, thereness is uncomfortably close to not-thereness, being to non-being, presence to 'no-presence' (Friends, pp. 33, 91).
    • 2002, Michael Lowenthal, Avoidance
      The comatose feel of Max, the pendulous not-thereness as he leaned onto me, now returned. "How did I screw up so bad?" I said.

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