actionness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]actionness (uncountable)
- (philosophy, linguistics) The property of being an action.
- 2006, Shrinivas Tilak, Understanding Karma:
- That action which, upon being performed, does not prejudicially affect its agent is deemed to have lost its nature of 'actionness' (karmatva) as well as its binding force (bandhakatva).
- 2015, Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century:
- Thus despite the usefulness of the noun 'agency' to describe actionness, and the ubiquity of the 'agency–structure debate' […]