"eventness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Coined by Mikhail Bakhtin as event + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|event|ness}} event + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} eventness (uncountable)
  1. The quality of not being utterly predictable; The specificity that characterizes an occurrence as meaningful. Wikipedia link: Mikhail Bakhtin Tags: uncountable
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