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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

isness en · NOUN

Etymology

From is + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:spirituality, uncountable) The quality of being; existence as something.
    • When I am in my isness, thoroughly purged of all intellectual sediments, I have my freedom in its primary sense. 1970, Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki, Zen and Japanese culture, Volumes 0-9842:
    • Isness always indicates identity of the other or another in an objective way. 1978, Charles B. Ketcham, A theology of encounter: the ontological ground for a new Christology:
    • To be aware of knowing God is to know about God and the self — to be thinking in terms of entities — not to have the direct experience of the isness. 2004, Richard H. Jones, Mysticism and morality: a new look at old questions: