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n. - The state of being at a farther point--not in this place--in position; Real existence.

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  • Things are really there...capture the thereness of them--Charles Hopkinson
  • There's a "thereness" to the action, fleeting and fantastical but somehow also grounded and natural.
  • In the words of one Japanese garden designer, the scene must lose its "thereness" so as to put the viewer into the frame.
  • In Antonello's work - and there are fewer than 40 paintings which are indisputably his - there's a special Sicilian sense of thereness which is without measure, which...
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