giveness

English

Etymology

From give +‎ -ness.

Noun

giveness (uncountable)

1. The act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.
   • 1996, Aharon Ronald Ellis Agus, Hermeneutic Biography in Rabbinic Midrash:

     The discrimination of embracing and rejecting vis-a-vis the world means a world that can no longer lord it over man in the legitimacy of its giveness; it means a break in the megalithicity of the world through whose threatening and totalitarian and opaque oneness […]

   • 2007, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Cognitive Justice in a Global World:

     What position if any do these theorists take on the giveness of the self?

   • 2013, Christopher J. Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom: A Theological Problem:

     Somehow, in some way, there is a resistance from the world, a giveness to the way things are, which provides some friction in relation to our beliefs about the world.