nearliness
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nearliness (uncountable)
- (rare) The quality of nearly being something, or nearly reaching a point; incomplete state.
- 2014, Mikko Tuhkanen, Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond[1]:
- The beauty of the horizon's distant interstitial line in turn inaccurately replicates the beholding implied by Winnicottian nearliness.