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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

againness en · NOUN

Etymology

From again + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being or happening again; repetition.
    • The quote suggests that enactment becomes recognized as reenactment, recognized as a matter of againness, through explicit theatricality. 2011, Rebecca Schneider, Reenactment, page 50:
    • Only on the hypothesis that what is learnt in one generation is remembered by the next, can there be any feeling of againness or of expectancy. 1922, The British journal of psychology: Volume 12: