somewhatness

somewhatness

English

Etymology

somewhat +‎ -ness

Noun

somewhatness (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The property of being a tangible or identifiable thing.
   • 1903, The Electrical Review (volume 51, page 616)

     Energy doubtless "is," but it is not possessed of "somewhatness." The definitions of energy are all unsatisfactory; the most common one is that energy is the capacity for doing work.

   • Quoted in: 1998, Henry Clarke Warren, Buddhism in Translations (page 145)

     He grasps the fourfold emptiness disclosed in the words: "I am nowhere a somewhatness for any one, and nowhere for me is there a somewhatness of any one."