besideness

English

Etymology

From beside +‎ -ness.

Noun

besideness (uncountable)

1. (chiefly philosophy) The quality of being beside.
   • 1977, Nelson Goodman, The Structure of Appearance:

     Clearly, matching is a necessary condition for besideness in a category, since if two qualia of a category fail to match there is still an M-path joining them and consequently one or more qualia lying between them.