"itness" meaning in All languages combined

See itness on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: it + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|it|ness}} it + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} itness (uncountable)
  1. Existence as a particular (type of) thing with particular qualities. Tags: uncountable Related terms: stick-to-itness, thingness
    Sense id: en-itness-en-noun-JPCgJum4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

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          "ref": "1991, Barbara Freedman, Staging the Gaze",
          "text": "Theatricality is foregrounded in the simple moment of pointing to an absence, as in the mask that points to itself as it advances. In this moment the itness of the I shows itself as what it is not in the act of self-reference.",
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          "ref": "1992, Stanley Cohen, Laurie Taylor, Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Life",
          "text": "This script declares: the universe is so right as to need no justification, existence is no longer a problem because of the 'itness' of everything, the whole world had become your own body […]",
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