English Explanatory Dictionary

thrownness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The Heideggerian concept of individual human existence as a case of being thrown arbitrarily into the world.

Word forms

thrownness

Etymology

Calque of German Geworfenheit as thrown + -ness.

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