howness

English

Etymology

From how +‎ -ness.

Noun

howness (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of how a person, object, or thing is.
   • 1988, Martin Heidegger, The basic problems of phenomenology:

     Because every being is determined by the what and the how and is unveiled as a being in its whatness and howness, its being-what and being-how, the copula is necessarily ambiguous.