aboutness

English

Etymology

about +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /əˈbaʊt.nəs/

Noun

aboutness (plural aboutnesses)

The relevance of a text to its reader. [First attested in the early 20^th century.][1]
- 1982, William Cadbury & Leland A. Poague, Film Criticism: A Counter Theory‎, →ISBN, page 19:
  The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design.
- 1996, Brian C. O'Connor, Explorations in Indexing and Abstracting‎, →ISBN, page 147:
  Movie critics provide a good example of aboutness judgments. When some critics rave and others pan, it is not because they have seen different physical texts; rather, all the technical knowledge, topical knowledge, emotions and beliefs of each critic are being engaged in the construction of a response to the physical text.

References

“aboutness” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

[1] “aboutness” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

单词	aboutness
释义	aboutness English Etymology about +‎ -ness Pronunciation (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbaʊt.nəs/ Noun aboutness (plural aboutnesses) The relevance of a text to its reader. [First attested in the early 20^th century.][1] 1982, William Cadbury & Leland A. Poague, Film Criticism: A Counter Theory‎, →ISBN, page 19: The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design. 1996, Brian C. O'Connor, Explorations in Indexing and Abstracting‎, →ISBN, page 147: Movie critics provide a good example of aboutness judgments. When some critics rave and others pan, it is not because they have seen different physical texts; rather, all the technical knowledge, topical knowledge, emotions and beliefs of each critic are being engaged in the construction of a response to the physical text. References “aboutness” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.
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