Definition of Beingness

1. Noun. The state or fact of existing. "Laws in existence for centuries"


Definition of Beingness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being being; existence. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beingness

beigy
beikost
beild
beilds
bein
bein'
being
being-for-itself
being-for-others
being-in-itself
being that
beinge
beinghood
beingless
beingly
beingness (current term)
beings
beinked
beinness
bejabbers
bejabers
bejade
bejaded
bejades
bejading
bejanked
bejanking
bejant
bejants
bejape

Literary usage of Beingness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life of Antonio Rosmini Serbati, Founder of the Institute of Charity by William S. Lockhart (1886)
"... divine imperative which dictates to every man " recognise being according to its beingness—according to the exigence of the nature of that being. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Its formal object is also " being", or " beingness. " The formal object of any science is that particular phase, quality, or aspect of things which ..."

3. What is Thought?: Or, The Problem of Philosophy by Way of a General by James Hutchison Stirling (1900)
"I and my being [my beingness, my am-ness, the fact that I am] are therefore inseparably united with each other ; the distinction of my being from me is a ..."

4. A Short Sketch of Modern Philosophies and of His Own System by Antonio Rosmini (1882)
"It is this which makes man intelligent and gives him a. moral law by which he sees the beingness or .essence of things, and recognizes the duty of his own ..."

5. Creation, the Sacred Universe: The Incubation of the Phoenix by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"I can represent my beingness in this higher dimension (yet close to your own) and I can better understand how you are deceived--such a deep realm of awesome ..."

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