actionness
nounEtymology From action + -ness.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sciences The property of being an action.
- That action which, upon being performed, does not prejudicially affect its agent is deemed to have lost its nature of 'actionness' (karmatva) as well as its binding force (bandhakatva).2006, Shrinivas Tilak, Understanding Karma:
- Thus despite the usefulness of the noun 'agency' to describe actionness, and the ubiquity of the 'agency–structure debate' […]2015, Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: