"not-thereness" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From not there + -ness.",
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          "ref": "1983, Baruch Hochman, The test of character: from the Victorian novel to the modern:",
          "text": "...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness.",
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          "ref": "2001, Rod Mengham, N. H. Reeve, The fiction of the 1940s: stories of survival:",
          "text": "In Bowen's work, thereness is uncomfortably close to not-thereness, being to non-being, presence to 'no-presence' (Friends, pp. 33, 91).",
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          "ref": "2002, Michael Lowenthal, Avoidance:",
          "text": "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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        "The quality of not being there; absence."
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