whateverness

English

Etymology

whatever +‎ -ness

Noun

whateverness (uncountable)

  1. Apathetic meaninglessness; a state in which something does not matter or is not cared about.
    • 1992, James Dillet Freeman, The hilltop heart: reflections of a practical mystic, page 33:
      Without Mind there are only meaningless electrons whirling in whateverness. Not even so much as that, for it is Mind that identifies the meaningless whateverness and cries out, "Electrons!"
    • 1999, Thomas Carl Wall, Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 125:
      particular one of those predicates (being-masculine, being- American, e.g.) exposes a relation between a real being and an empty totality, a nonthing, or nothing that renders this real being a whateverness.
    • 2013, Michael Sayeau, Against the Event:
      Rather than the arrival of subjectivity through a decision, through fidelity, this occurrence is distinctly promiscuous—it ends nearly as soon as it begins and leads only to the exposure of the whateverness of the individuals involved.
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