howness en · NOUN
Etymology
From how + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or condition of how a person, object, or thing is.
Because every being is determined by the what and the how and is unveiled as a being in its whatness and howness, its being-what and being-how, the copula is necessarily ambiguous.
1988, Martin Heidegger, The basic problems of phenomenology: