worldness

worldness

English

Etymology

world +‎ -ness

Noun

worldness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being a world; existence as a world.
   • 1990, George Kovacs, The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology (page 62)

     The finitude of There-being (finite transcendence) and the worldness of the World, in a sense, constitute an "atheistic" quality of this philosophy.

   • 2002, M. Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, Beyond Dichotomies (page 288)

     The wretched other side of worldness is what is called globalization or the global market: reduction to the bare basics, the rush to the bottom, standardization, the imposition of multinational corporations […]

   • 2010, Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, Matthew Allen, The international handbook of internet research (page 318)

     It can be carried out in several ways, depending on whether the goal is to identify more general aspects of “worldness” or to identify defining aspects of the worldness of one gameworld.