funicity
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4ADJ.
own
VERB + FUNICITY
measure
FUNICITY + NOUN
-, things
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in
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noun
An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation.
For some quark, perhaps, the measure of its funicity is zero.
The reflection of an object's own history in its current form.
In this grey and lugubrious "history," form is all, and any work of art incorporates traces of its (own) funicity.
Our ability to read historical change and transformation in the funicity of things - the very bedrock of our socialization - is a socio-semiotic skill we begin to acquire in infancy, and is refined throughout our lives.
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3For some quark, perhaps, the measure of its funicity is zero.
WiktionaryIn this grey and lugubrious "history," form is all, and any work of art incorporates traces of its (own) funicity.
WiktionaryOur ability to read historical change and transformation in the funicity of things - the very bedrock of our socialization - is a socio-semiotic skill we begin to acquire in infancy, and is refined th
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