Entry: isness (n.)
In context: "...making all sorts of heavy art-gesture films about film and consciousness and isness and diffraction and stasis et cetera."
Definition: a. The fact that a thing is.
b. That which a thing is in itself; essence.
Other: And I would have bet this wasn't in the OED!
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 1027
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
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