English
eventness
Coined by Mikhail Bakhtin as event + -ness.
Formed from event + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- ‘to come’
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Latin veniō ‘come’
Latin ēveniō ‘to happen’
Latin ēventus ‘an event’
Middle French event
English event
The story
Coined by Mikhail Bakhtin as event + -ness.
Today it means
noun The quality of not being utterly predictable; the specificity that characterizes an occurrence as meaningful.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / eventness