againness

noun

againness

noun

Etymology From again + -ness.

1

The quality of being or happening again; repetition.

  • Only on the hypothesis that what is learnt in one generation is remembered by the next, can there be any feeling of againness or of expectancy.1922, The British journal of psychology: Volume 12:
  • The quote suggests that enactment becomes recognized as reenactment, recognized as a matter of againness, through explicit theatricality.2011, Rebecca Schneider, Reenactment, page 50:

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