Giving vs Giveness - What's the difference?
giving | giveness |
having the tendency to give; generous
The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
A gift; a benefaction.
The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.
* Addison
The act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.
*1996 , Aharon Ronald Ellis Agus, Hermeneutic Biography in Rabbinic Midrash :
*2007 , Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Cognitive Justice in a Global World :
*2013 , Christopher J. Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom: A Theological Problem :
As nouns the difference between giving and giveness
is that giving is the act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting while giveness is the act of giving or yielding; submission; concession; allowance.As a verb giving
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective giving
is having the tendency to give; generous.giving
English
(wikipedia giving)Verb
(head)- ''These bright surfaces are sprayed with a fine spray of ink, thus giving them an even surface.' - First Usenet use via Google Groups, fa.human-nets, 6 May 1981 0359-EDT, Gary Feldman at CMU-10A
Adjective
(en adjective)- To become like Christ involves everything else: becoming a loving and giving person, having confidence enabling you to be vulnerable (psychologically and physically; Jesus did both), having the wisdom to see people's needs and the desire to meet them. - net.flame - 26 Mar 1984 by Jeff Sargent
Noun
(en noun)- (Alexander Pope)
- Upon the first giving of the weather.
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Noun
(-)- 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 […]
- What position if any do these theorists take on the giveness of the self?
- 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.