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PRONUNCIATION OF WHATNESS

whatness  [ˈwɒtnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WHATNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Whatness 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 WHATNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of whatness in the English dictionary

The definition of whatness in the dictionary is what something is; the essence of something.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WHATNESS


absoluteness
ˌæbsəˈluːtnəs
adeptness
əˈdɛptnəs
airtightness
ˈɛətaɪtnəs
colorfastness
ˈkʌləˌfɑːstnəs
concreteness
ˈkɒŋkriːtnəs
currentness
ˈkʌrəntnəs
cuteness
ˈkjuːtnəs
definiteness
ˈdɛfɪnɪtnəs
exactness
ɪɡˈzæktnəs
exquisiteness
ɪkˈskwɪzɪtnəs
finiteness
ˈfaɪnaɪtnəs
inappropriateness
ˌɪnəˈprəʊprɪɪtnəs
incorrectness
ˌɪnkəˈrɛktnəs
inertness
ɪnˈɜːtnəs
legitimateness
lɪˈdʒɪtəmətnəs
privateness
ˈpraɪvətnəs
squatness
ˈskwɒtnəs
straitness
ˈstreɪtnəs
sweetness
ˈswiːtnəs
up-to-dateness
ˌʌptəˈdeɪtnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WHATNESS

what´s your poison?
what´s yours?
what´s-her-name
what´s-his-name
what´s-its-name
whata
whataboutery
whatabouts
whatchamacallit
whate´er
whaten
whatever
whatevs
whatnot
whatsit
whatsitsname
whatso
whatsoe´er
whatsoever
whatsomever

WORDS THAT END LIKE WHATNESS

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

Synonyms and antonyms of whatness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «whatness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WHATNESS

Find out the translation of whatness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of whatness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «whatness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

whatness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

quididad
570 millions of speakers

English

whatness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

whatness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

whatness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

whatness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

whatness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বস্তুপরিচয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

quiddité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Whatness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wassein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

whatness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

whatness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Whatness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

whatness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

whatness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काय धंदा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

whatness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

whatness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

whatness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

whatness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

whatness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

whatness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

whatness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

whatness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

whatness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of whatness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WHATNESS»

The term «whatness» is used very little and occupies the 178.665 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WHATNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «whatness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «whatness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHATNESS»

Discover the use of whatness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to whatness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Whatness of Rome: A Novel
Nothing, thought Thelonius,to distract aperson from the whatness, the essence, thesmell,the light, the flow, the pulse, the mood, the feelofa place.And this place of Esther's, so far from the vernal place where hewasborn, was ahaven wherehe  ...
Trina Boyer, 2013
2
Philosophy of Being: A Reconstructive Essay in Metaphysics
Each of the three aspects or ingredients we distinguish is to be understood in relation to the others. There is no thisness without whatness and no whatness without thisness. Any this or that is always understood as having some determinations, ...
Oliva Blanchette, 2003
3
For the Love of Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Philosophy
Strictly speaking, there is in reality neither an existence that would predate a being's essence, nature, or whatness nor an essence that would predate existence; being, in abstraction from essence and whatness, is just as inconceivable as ...
Josef Pieper, Berthold Wald, 2006
4
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology
quidditas, the whatness of things. The propositio is the answer to the question What is the thing? From the nominalist viewpoint this means: What is the reason for the assignment of two different names to the same thing? To utter the "is" in the ...
Martin Heidegger, 1988
5
Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything: Contributions ...
is, primarily, its whatness.10 In Aristotelian frameworks, the problem ofbeing is not recognized, so the primacy of whatness is the primacy of substance over at least accidental attributes: according to such frameworks, Alan White is, primarily,  ...
Alan White, 2014
6
What Am I? : Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem: Descartes ...
In the argument from whatness, the target property F relies on the notion of the kind of thing DM is, that is, the nature of DM or what-DM-is. I use this vocabulary to formulate F as “by whatness thinking”: (1W)DM is by whatness thinking. (2W)It is ...
Los Angeles Joseph Almog Professor of Philosophy University of California, 2001
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Studies in Arabic Philosophy
And this is either (a) a complete " whatness," or (P) is included in the " whatness," and /19/ is something such that the " whatness " does not exist without its existence and is destroyed with its destruction, both in the external world 12 and in the ...
Nicholas Rescher, 1968
8
Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde: Aspects of a Philosophy of ...
They delimit the relationship between the object - its 'whatness' - and that in terms of which this 'whatness' is determined, namely, the understanding and tradition. This is the nature of predictive experience. It is not as though the 'whatness' ...
Andrew Benjamin, 2005
9
Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic"
ness: the essence is the whatness of something, and this is determined as the dominant look, I8ea. But how does Plato come to this characterization of the essentiality of the essence? Is it obvious? Not in the least, although we have long ago ...
Martin Heidegger, 1994
10
What Am I?: Descartes and the Mind-body Problem
The Argument from Whatness In the argument from whatness, the target property F relies on the notion of the kind of thing DM is, that is, the nature of DM or what- DM-is. I use this vocabulary to formulate F as "by whatness thinking": (ii) DM is by  ...
Joseph Almog, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHATNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term whatness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Abelardo Morell's photographs revisit last winter
In “Ulysses,” Stephan Dedalus notes that “horseness is the whatness of allhorse.” These pictures evoke winterness as the whatness of allwinter. There are no ... «Boston Globe, May 15»
2
Wald und Kläs in der Bielefelder Kunsthalle: „Whatness
Von Achim Lettmann - BIELEFELD Ein bisschen zufällig wirken die Büsten, die Johannes Wald auf schmalen Leisten in ein offenes Regal gestellt hat. In der ... «Westfälischer Anzeiger, Apr 15»
3
Bielefeld: Skulpturen im Dialog
Die Ausstellung steht unter dem ungewöhnlichen Titel »Whatness«. Es folgt die Aufzählung aller Materialien von Aluminium bis Zement. »Whatness« meint in ... «Westfalium, Apr 15»
4
Esther Kläs und Johannes Wald eröffnen am Wochenende ihre …
Die trägt den sperrigen Titel »Whatness« und ist vom 28. März bis zum 21. Juni zu sehen; Ausstellungseröffnung ist am 27. März um 19 Uhr. Der Titel bezieht ... «Westfalen-Blatt, Mar 15»
5
Postscript: Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014)
“By instinct and habit, I was more interested in the whatness of the war rather than in the rightness or wrongness,” he wrote in his 1995 memoir, “A Good Life. «The New Yorker, Oct 14»
6
Which way is up? Where is here?
Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley try to get to the bottom of up and uncover the whatness of where. Martha Foley: I got an email from a listener who has an ... «North Country Public Radio, Sep 14»
7
Old People, Young People, and Priests
It is, as Joyce wrote, the object's “whatness” that “leaps to us from the vestment of its appearance.” The character Stephen Hero explains: He told Cranly that the ... «The Smart Set, May 14»
8
Audio: Inessa talks to Laura Ivancie about 'Epiphany”
Its soul, its whatness.” In this case the “whatness” is the amazing base of female talent within Portland!! Laura and I got together to talk about the what and the ... «Oregon Music News, May 14»
9
Musicals Tonight! Production of the Gershwins' For Goodness Sake …
... the shenanigans." The Gershwin score includes "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise," "Oh, Gee, Oh, Gosh" and "The Whichness of Whatness," among others. «Playbill.com, Mar 14»
10
Tentang Wahdatul Wujud (3)
Sedangkan, yang kedua diasosiasikan dengan sesuatu yang bersifat lahiriah, aradh, axident, mahiyah (quidity, whatness), nasut, yin, bercahaya, wujud di ... «Republika Online, Mar 14»

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