againness

English

Etymology

From again +‎ -ness.

Noun

againness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being or happening again; repetition.
   • 1922, The British journal of psychology: Volume 12:

     Only on the hypothesis that what is learnt in one generation is remembered by the next, can there be any feeling of againness or of expectancy.

   • 2011, Rebecca Schneider, Reenactment, page 50:

     The quote suggests that enactment becomes recognized as reenactment, recognized as a matter of againness, through explicit theatricality.