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Doneness vs Goneness - What's the difference?

doneness | goneness |

As nouns the difference between doneness and goneness

is that doneness is the extent to which something is done while goneness is the state or quality of being gone, ie no longer present.

doneness

English

Noun

(es)
  • The extent to which something is done.

    • goneness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being gone, i.e. no longer present.
  • * 1999 , Vivian Patraka, Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust
    • It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.
  • (US, informal) A state of exhaustion or faintness, especially from hunger.