Home › Words › W › whencenesswhencenesswhenceness means the state or condition of being from somewhere.EtymologyFrom whence + -ness.nounThe state or condition of being from somewhere.e.g.“As we followed him along the street, he explained our whyness, whenceness, and whitherness to all the loafing children of the sun who inquired of him.” — 1911, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction - Volume 57:An unspecified location or condition from which something or someone has come.e.g.“The "wherefores and whenceness. "” — 1898, Francis Bartow Lloyd, Lily C. Lloyd, Sketches of Country Life, page 175:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.anywhereness 63% match — The state or quality of being anywhere. vs whenceness →elsewhereness 62% match — The quality of being elsewhere. vs whenceness →nowhereness 61% match — The quality of being nowhere. vs whenceness →nativeness 61% match — The state or condition of being native. vs whenceness →localness 60% match — The state or condition of being local. vs whenceness →beforeness 59% match — The state or quality of being before. vs whenceness →placeness 58% match — The quality of being a place. vs whenceness →placelessness 58% match — The state or quality of being placeless. vs whenceness →