From <span class="searchmatch">what</span> + <span class="searchmatch">it's</span> + <span class="searchmatch">like</span> + -<span class="searchmatch">ness</span>. <span class="searchmatch">what</span>-<span class="searchmatch">it's</span>-<span class="searchmatch">like</span>-<span class="searchmatch">ness</span> (uncountable) (philosophy) The qualitative character of consciousness. 2012, Paul S. MacDonald...
From quala (“<span class="searchmatch">what</span> sort of, <span class="searchmatch">what</span> kind of, <span class="searchmatch">what</span> a, <span class="searchmatch">like</span>”) + -eso (“-ion, -<span class="searchmatch">ness</span>, -ity, -tude, -ship (etc., used abstractly)”, suffix denoting, with nonverbal...
From <span class="searchmatch">what</span> + -<span class="searchmatch">ness</span>. <span class="searchmatch">whatness</span> (plural whatnesses) (philosophy) Essence; quiddity. Quality; quantity. 1961, Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Metaphysics...
You listening to me at this moment I am speaking to you? You are full of cruelness, you are <span class="searchmatch">like</span> women, you sea! Have you finished with me yet or <span class="searchmatch">what</span>?’...
Thomas Wyatt, page xvi: In his Satires we find <span class="searchmatch">what</span> we may call a mellowed souredness of spirit, <span class="searchmatch">like</span> the taste of the plum or sloe when touched by the...
Be Lacking From the Knicks Top Performers”, in New York Times[1]: I <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">what</span> I'm seeing, in terms of the vocalness of certain people on our team, starting...
the edge of cringey-<span class="searchmatch">ness</span>. She doesn’t <span class="searchmatch">like</span> “Hotel California” (“The Eagles are hokey, and Don Henley is a very mean man. … <span class="searchmatch">It’s</span> <span class="searchmatch">like</span> the ‘Brown-Eyed Girl’...
Companions: The Story of the First Dogs, page 29: <span class="searchmatch">What</span> the first dogs had, <span class="searchmatch">like</span> the last wolves, was <span class="searchmatch">what</span> I call dogginess. Dogginess is the essence of dogdom...
Old English drēoriġnys (“dreariness, sadness”), equivalent to dreary + -<span class="searchmatch">ness</span>. dreariness (countable and uncountable, plural drearinesses) The characteristic...
pages 52–53: <span class="searchmatch">It's</span> always annoyed me that the West Somerset Railway (Britain's longest heritage line) was prevented by <span class="searchmatch">what</span> seemed <span class="searchmatch">like</span> bloody-mindedness...