nonce-wd. [f. WITH prep. + -NESS.] The fact of being with some one or something; collocation, association.
1907. W. James, Pragmatism, iv. 156. The lowest grade of universe would be a world of mere withness, of which the parts were only strung together by the conjunction ‘and.’
1912. Contemp. Rev., Jan., 99. This Withness, Together-withness, association, companionship, fellowship, brings us into the interior of the plan of the creation.
