English

Noun

withness ‎(uncountable)

1. (philosophy) The quality of being or doing with something.
   • 2000, Sharon Warner, Experiencing the Knowing of Faith (page 113)

     Whitehead passionately denies this premise, and asserts repeatedly that the root of all perception is the "withness of the body." We see with our eyes; we taste with our palate.

   • 2009, Eric Manning, Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (page 6)

     Nonetheless, there is an incipient potentiality even here, where the step can move eventfully in a withness of movement moving that exceeds the predomination of the ground: the step can become a spiral.