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While not every tree is exactly the same, all oak trees do share a something, a shared whatness, that makes an oak an oak.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Form, much like an idea a sculptor has in mind, is the unchanging purpose or whatness informing each particular or individual instance.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

I saw in the painter’s face an exasperated attempt to grasp the whatness of being.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 26, 2019

There is no difficulty in describing the "whatness" of a film, but there is more trouble with the "howness" and the "whyness".

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2010

"And isn't it you who argues the finer shades between thisness and whatness, thickness and opaque intrusions at this juncture?"

From The Land of Look Behind by Brown, Paul Cameron