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Meaning of "firstness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FIRSTNESS

firstness  [ˈfɜːstnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FIRSTNESS

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Firstness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FIRSTNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Semiotic elements and classes of signs

Logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist Charles Sanders Peirce began writing on semeiotic, semiotics, or the theory of sign relations in the 1860s, around the time that he devised his system of three categories. He eventually defined semiosis as an "action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs". This specific type of triadic relation is fundamental to Peirce's understanding of "logic as formal semiotic". By "logic" he meant philosophical logic. He eventually divided logic, or formal semiotic, into speculative grammar, or stechiology, on the elements of semiosis, how signs can signify and, in relation to that, what kinds of signs, objects, and interpretants there are, how signs combine, and how some signs embody or incorporate others; logical critic, or logic proper, on the modes of inference; and speculative rhetoric, or methodeutic, the philosophical theory of inquiry, including his form of pragmatism. His speculative grammar, or stechiology, is this article's subject.

Definition of firstness in the English dictionary

The definition of firstness in the dictionary is the condition or quality of being first.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FIRSTNESS


barefacedness
ˈbɛəfeɪstnəs
colorfastness
ˈkʌləˌfɑːstnəs
curstness
ˈkɜːstnəs
fixedness
ˈfɪkstnəs
forcedness
ˈfɔːstnəs
gastness
ˈɡɑːstnəs
ghastness
ˈɡɑːstnəs
lightfastness
ˈlaɪtˌfɑːstnəs
lostness
ˈlɒstnəs
manifestness
ˈmænɪˌfɛstnəs
pastness
ˈpɑːstnəs
perplexedness
pəˈplɛkstnəs
shamefastness
ˈʃeɪmˌfɑːstnəs
soothfastness
ˈsuːθˌfɑːstnəs
stedfastness
ˈstedfɑːstnəs
unbiasedness
ʌnˈbaɪəstnəs
unjustness
ʌnˈdʒʌstnəs
unsteadfastness
ʌnˈstɛdˌfɑːstnəs
vexedness
ˈvɛkstnəs
wasteness
ˈweɪstnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FIRSTNESS

first-grader
first-hand
first-line
first-loss policy
first-name
first-named
first-nighter
first-order
first-past-the-post
first-past-the-post system
first-person
first-person shooter
first-rate
first-strike
first-string
first-time buyer
first-timer
firstling
firstly
firsts

WORDS THAT END LIKE FIRSTNESS

alertness
brightness
business
correctness
expert witness
eyewitness
fitness
greatness
hotness
lightness
physical fitness
political correctness
promptness
robustness
shortness
softness
sweetness
tartness
tightness
wetness
witness

Synonyms and antonyms of firstness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «firstness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FIRSTNESS

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Translator English - Chinese

firstness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

primeridad
570 millions of speakers

English

firstness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

firstness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

firstness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

firstness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

primeiridade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

firstness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

priméité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Firstness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Erstheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

firstness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

firstness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Firstness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

firstness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

firstness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रथमपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

firstness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Firstness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

firstness
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Translator English - Ukrainian

firstness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

firstness
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

firstness
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

firstness
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

firstness
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

firstness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of firstness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FIRSTNESS»

The term «firstness» is used very little and occupies the 173.820 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FIRSTNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about firstness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIRSTNESS»

Discover the use of firstness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to firstness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings
A Fact may be defined as the Secondness which consists between anything and a possibility, or Firstness, realized in that thing. It may be thought that Possibility involves Thirdness, because the Possible is sometimes defined as that which is ...
Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J. W. Kloesel, 1998
2
Firstness, History, Place & Legitimate Claim to ...
With reference to Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Australia.
Michael Roberts, 2005
3
Prospects of Legal Semiotics
Firstness is wholeness only in the light of that breach. This constitutes the sign- function of firstness; it is a sign that a rupture is unavoidable! Firstness might only be the sign of a future event or plurality of events, and not the description of ...
Anne Wagner, Jan M. Broekman, 2010
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The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education
The crux of Perciean truth-theory is the idea of firstness, which can be closely paralleled to Husserl's phenomenological theory. Firstness, in Peirce's mind, is described as “the mode of being which consists in its subject's being positively such ...
Jan M. Broekman, Francis J. Mootz, 2011
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Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and ...
to Firstness, he does conceive of it as a moment of signification, usually expressed by some belief in the language of nature. Thus, we are affected by such a state when we see how the entire world relates to us, or when, in the holy place, we ...
Johannes Voelz, 2010
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Collected Papers
Thirdness though not of Firstness, and Firstness is an essential element of both Secondness and Thirdness. Hence there is such a thing as the Firstness of Secondness and such a thing as the Firstness of Thirdness; and there is such a thing ...
Charles Sanders Peirce, 1931
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Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The ...
But you have entirely failed to prove that Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness are independent ideas for the obvious reason that it is as plain as the nose on your face that the idea of a triplet involves the idea of pairs, and the idea of a pair the ...
Charles Sanders Peirce, Patricia Ann Turrisi, 1997
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The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings ...
A Fact may be defined as the Secondness which consists between anything and a possibility, or Firstness, realized in that thing. It may be thought that Possibility involves Thirdness, because the Possible is sometimes defined as that which is ...
Peirce Edition Project, 1998
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Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction
For Heidegger, firstness is an originary awareness that is best understood by the metaphor of the opening, particularly as in abruptly coming upon a clearing in the midst of a dark forest. As Heidegger puts it, the opening grants first of all the ...
M. Carter
10
Charles S. Peirce: On Norms and Ideals
in turn, depend upon Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness as component parts. The idea of mingling Firstness and Secondness in this particular way is an idea distinct from the ideas of Firstness and Secondness which it combines. It appears  ...
Vincent G. Potter, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIRSTNESS»

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The First Film | Movie review
... Wilkinson completely misses the opportunity to dispute the importance attributed to “firstness”, which would have made for a more compelling ... «The Upcoming, Jul 15»
2
EEU, Vietnam ink free trade agreement
... trade pact with the EEU has significant meaning thanks to its 'firstness',” said Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, director of the World Trade Organization ... «Undercurrent News, Jun 15»
3
FTA with Eurasian Economic Union leaves door wide open for …
... the trade pact with the EEU has significant meaning thanks to its 'firstness',” said Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, director of the WTO Center under the ... «Tuoitrenews, May 15»
4
Lawrence Buell: My country, 'tis a book
Such questions lead to endless wrangling over firstness. But for the Great American Novel, we know precisely when it entered public culture as ... «Dallas Morning News, Mar 15»
5
Perth Writers Festival day two
The term 'YA' (Young Adult) means 'teenager', and we all remember what Craw calls 'The firstness of everything'. Our bodies change, we do ... «ArtsHub, Feb 15»
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Review: In Jorie's Graham's 'From the New World,' Flux Is a Whirling …
Continue reading the main story. The noon hour is itself always a firstness. of something. Also, elsewhere, who is hungry? How small are they? «New York Times, Feb 15»
7
Here's what happened at Julia Gillard's book launch today
... the former prime minister's gender and her "firstness", the "enormous rucksack" Gillard carried when she ascended to the prime ministership, ... «Daily Life, Sep 14»
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Home and Family are Not Outmoded. They are Eternal Truths on …
The Me Generation wanted to opt out of all the constraints that came between it and its essential drive to all-out me-firstness. “It's better to be ... «Patheos, Aug 14»
9
Why has no Thatcher or Reagan emerged for our troubled times?
The combination of her sex, her views, her dramatic story and what one might call the “firstness” of everything about her ensures that. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 14»
10
Mad Dad: What the Wrath of God Cannot Be
as much as creative and redemptive firstness. God the Father initiaties – one might say, inseminates – the processes of creation and ... «Patheos, Mar 14»

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