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Definition of Beingness
1. Noun. The state or fact of existing. "Laws in existence for centuries"
Generic synonyms: State
Specialized synonyms: Actuality, Eternity, Timeless Existence, Timelessness, Preexistence, Coexistence, Subsistence, Presence, Life, Aliveness, Animation, Life, Living, Life, Transcendence, Transcendency, Possibility, Possibleness
Attributes: Existent, Existing, Nonexistent
Derivative terms: Be, Exist, Existent, Existent, Existent, Existential
Antonyms: Nonbeing, Nonexistence
Definition of Beingness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being being; existence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Beingness
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1. Life of Antonio Rosmini Serbati, Founder of the Institute of Charity by William S. Lockhart (1886)
"... divine imperative which dictates to every man " recognise being according to
its beingness—according to the exigence of the nature of that being. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Its formal object is also " being", or " beingness. " The formal object of any
science is that particular phase, quality, or aspect of things which ..."
3. What is Thought?: Or, The Problem of Philosophy by Way of a General by James Hutchison Stirling (1900)
"I and my being [my beingness, my am-ness, the fact that I am] are therefore
inseparably united with each other ; the distinction of my being from me is a ..."
4. A Short Sketch of Modern Philosophies and of His Own System by Antonio Rosmini (1882)
"It is this which makes man intelligent and gives him a. moral law by which he
sees the beingness or .essence of things, and recognizes the duty of his own ..."
5. Creation, the Sacred Universe: The Incubation of the Phoenix by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"I can represent my beingness in this higher dimension (yet close to your own)
and I can better understand how you are deceived--such a deep realm of awesome ..."
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