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Definition of Nextness
1. Noun. The fact or condition of immediate succession or proximity; the quality of being next. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nextness
1. the state of being next [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nextness
Literary usage of Nextness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Idealism by May Sinclair (1922)
"Now the Cantor-Dedekind definition does away with nextness. ... As a matter of
fact you have only exchanged the relation of nextness for the relation of ..."
2. The New Idealism by May Sinclair (1922)
"Now the Cantor-Dedekind definition does away with nextness. ... As a matter of
fact you have only exchanged the relation of nextness for the relation of ..."
3. Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James, Ralph Barton Perry (1922)
"... we can imagine a universe of withness but no nextness; or one of nextness but
no likeness, or of likeness with no activity, or of activity with no ..."
4. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1876)
"... having certain relations of nextness, and behaviour uniformly depending on
that nextness, condescendingly explains Professor Clifford. ..."
5. A Cosmic View of Religion by William Riley Halstead (1913)
"The permanent dynamic of a growing mind is nextness—nextness. It makes advances.
It discovers error. It is then hindered and disturbed. ..."
6. The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong by William Kingdon Clifford (1884)
"... are nothing more than collections of these practically uniform elements, having
certain relations of nextness, and behavior uniformly depending on that ..."
7. A Defence of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions by May Sinclair (1917)
"133-134.) It is obvious that this feat would be impossible if time could not be
treated in the same way. So there is no nextness anywhere. ..."
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