[f. WHERE + -NESS: cf. HERENESS, THERENESS.] The condition, quality, or fact of being where it is; position, situation, location, ubi (as an attribute of something, or vaguely of things generally).
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 43. It would crack my brain to find so many whernesses there, to stow each of them in.
1701. Grew, Cosmol. Sacra, I. iii. 11. There is no Minimum, but a Point: which hath no Dimensions, but only a Whereness, and is next to Nothing.
1733. Watts, Philos. Ess., VI. v. (1734), 165. The Ubi or Whereness of a Spirit.
a. 1843. Southey, Doctor, cxcii. (1848), 509. I … can never be lost till I get out of Whereness itself into Nowhere.
1887. Mind, Jan., 18. Any special whereness or thereness.
1895. G. Macdonald, Lilith, iii. You know nothing about whereness.
