aboutness

名词 n.
/əˈbaʊt.nəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The relevance of a text to its reader. countable,uncountable
    — The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design.

词形变化

aboutnesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *ana-
Proto-West Germanic *ana-
Old English on-?
Proto-West Germanic *bī
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-West Germanic *ūtō
Proto-West Germanic *ūtan
Proto-West Germanic *biūtan
Old English būtan
Old English onbūtan
Middle English aboute
English about
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English aboutness
From about + -ness.
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