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becauseness en · NOUN

Etymology

From because + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The quality of being a causal result.
    • Real observers, Kant concluded, must live in a world of whatness, whereness, whenness, and becauseness, imposed by the way that a mind such as ours can grasp reality. 2008, Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature:
    • The child's concept of 'becauseness', i.e. causality, will undergo a series of changes, but not the verbal symbol which refers to it. Later on, the causal relation will enter as a relatum into the higher matrix of 'logical categories' […] 1964, Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation: