suchness

suchness
/such"nis/, n.
1. a fundamental, intrinsic, or characteristic quality or condition: seraphic indifference to the suchness of his surroundings.
2. Buddhism. Tathata.
[bef. 1000; OE swilcnesse (not recorded in ME); see SUCH, -NESS]

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