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unbornness

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English

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Etymology

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From unborn +‎ -ness.

Noun

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unbornness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unborn.
    • 1997, Daniel Albright, Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism, page 282:
      Eliot's poetry reverberates in us because it appeals to our sense of the unbornness of the worlds in which we live, our sense of the immaturity and plasticity of even the most learned, smart, highly developed self.