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Beingness vs Beingless - What's the difference?

beingness | beingless |

As a noun beingness

is the state or quality of being being; existence.

As an adjective beingless is

devoid of being; nonexistent.

beingness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or quality of being being; existence.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1865 , author= , title=The Secret of Hegel citation , page=263 , passage=Thus, from every example, we may see that Quantity always concerns a Beingness , which is indifferent to the very determinateness which it now, or at any time, has.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1988 , author= , title=What is Political Philosophy? citation , isbn=0226777138 , page=253 , passage=In the good painting the stone is no longer a stone, i.e., something which we could not possibly be: in the good painting the stone has become visible in its beingness ; only in the work of art is the stone truly.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , author=Richard H. Jones , title=Mysticism and Morality: A New Look at Old Questions citation , isbn=0739107844 , page=391 , passage=The two approaches remain distinct ways of knowing: mystics are interested in the changeless beingness outside of time, while scientists are only interested in understanding the causes of the changes within the world of time.}}

    Usage notes

    This word is often found in Scientology texts.

    Related terms

    * beingdom * beinghood * doingness * nothingness

    beingless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Devoid of being; nonexistent.
  • * 1995 , Carol J Adams, Neither man nor beast: feminism and the defense of animals
    • Having recognized his individuality, his subjectivity, having been in relationship with him, I could not render him beingless .
  • Devoid of living beings; uninhabited.
  • * 1996 , Robert Cecil Olby, Companion to the history of modern science
    • For that is all there is: material atoms moving mindlessly in the beingless void of space.