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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

besideness en · NOUN

Etymology

From beside + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being beside.
    • Clearly, matching is a necessary condition for besideness in a category, since if two qualia of a category fail to match there is still an M-path joining them and consequently one or more qualia lying between them. 1977, Nelson Goodman, The Structure of Appearance: