almostness

English

Etymology

almost +‎ -ness

Noun

almostness (uncountable)

1. The quality of almost being something, or almost reaching a point; incomplete state.
   • 1997, Henry Sussman, The aesthetic contract:

     The situation of beauty described here in the most abstract possible way involves a striking, we might almost say teasing, almostness: the object is a form, not a sensation or representation; it tickles reflexivity […]

   • 2009, Carol E. Henderson, America and the black body:

     Each body is in this sense two bodies […] or a kind of double helix where two opposite sides of one ribbon touch and describe a circle of time and space, a here and now, an entry into worldness. Or, rather, in the case of the animate human body, almost touch, almost close into a circle, and this almostness is equally essential to the possibility of worldness.

See also

• nearliness
• nearlyness