firstness
nounEtymology From first + -ness.
1
The quality of being first; originality; priority; primacy.
- But it was not swimming and boating again that pleased him. The joy of it was its firstness: never before had a boat rested on the waters of this world; never before had these children seen a human being swim.1983, Orson Scott Card, The Worthington Chronicle, Ace, →ISBN:
- Firstness (in-itselfness, originality) helps to explain logico-cognitive processes and therefore, at once, the formation of signs.2012, Susan Petrilli, Expression and Interpretation in Language, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 140: