somewhatness
nounEtymology From somewhat + -ness.
1
Archaic The property of being a tangible or identifiable thing.
- Energy doubtless "is," but it is not possessed of "somewhatness." The definitions of energy are all unsatisfactory; the most common one is that energy is the capacity for doing work.1903, The Electrical Review, volume 51, page 616:
- He grasps the fourfold emptiness disclosed in the words: "I am nowhere a somewhatness for any one, and nowhere for me is there a somewhatness of any one."Quoted in: 1998, Henry Clarke Warren, Buddhism in Translations (page 145)