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Abjectness vs Objectness - What's the difference?

abjectness | objectness |

As nouns the difference between abjectness and objectness

is that abjectness is the state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility while objectness is the state of being an object.

abjectness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.

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    objectness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The state of being an object
  • * {{quote-news, year=1998, date=May 15, author=Fred Camper, title=Dreams of Power, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=As a result objects that "should" dominate in Sekiguchi's work instead look strangely anomalous, as if the painter found these isolated things--steaks cut from an animal, an eye separate from the rest of a human figure--to be almost funny in their assertive objectness . }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=July 1, author=Thomas Connors, title=The Inscrutable Nutt, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Like much of the work, these are surrounded by painted frames that are part of the overall composition and underscore the objectness of the artwork. }}