firstness - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

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firstness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being first; originality; priority

    • 1983, Orson Scott Card, The Worthington Chronicle, Ace, →ISBN:

      But it was not swimming and boating again that pleased him. The joy of it was its firstness: never before had a boat rested on the waters of this world; never before had these children seen a human being swim.

    • 2012, Susan Petrilli, Expression and Interpretation in Language‎[1], Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 140:

      Firstness (in-itselfness, originality) helps to explain logico-cognitive processes and therefore, at once, the formation of signs.

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