meantness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

meant +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

meantness (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The state or quality of being meant or intended.
    • 2012, Marcus Brainard, Belief and Its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I:
      Mere meantness as the correlate of the relation between judging and the proposition marks the situation in which such meantness has yet to be confirmed or denied.