rare. [f. THERE + -NESS.] The condition or quality of being there; existence in a defined place. (Usually opposed to hereness.)
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 11. The all-fillingness of God, the herenesses and therenesses of ghosts, have been too much interwoven and twisted together. Ibid., 45. The thereness or hereness was nothing belonging unto God.
1887. W. James, in Mind, XII. 18. Could that possibly be the feeling of any special whereness or thereness?
1899. J. Caird, Fundamental Ideas Chr., II. ix. 13. Hereness and thereness are incessantly passing out of and into each other.
