actionness

English

Etymology

action +‎ -ness

Noun

actionness (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy, linguistics) The property of being an action.
    • 2006, Shrinivas Tilak, Understanding Karma:
      That action which, upon being performed, does not prejudicially affect its agent is deemed to have lost its nature of 'actionness' (karmatva) as well as its binding force (bandhakatva).
    • 2015, Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century:
      Thus despite the usefulness of the noun 'agency' to describe actionness, and the ubiquity of the 'agency–structure debate' […]

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