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GIVENNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does givenness mean?
• GIVENNESS (noun)
The noun GIVENNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed
Familiarity information: GIVENNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("givenness" is a kind of...):
indisputability; indubitability; unquestionability; unquestionableness (the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt)
Derivation:
given (acknowledged as a supposition)
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