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whateverness

whateverness

English

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 9780791440476), 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.