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If "ubiety" is "whereness", who can coin a word for "thereness"? Remember Gertrude Stein/Alice B Toklas:
"There's no there there." ?
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Aw, shucks, fellas. Ubi = where, ibi= there. So the twin to "ubiety" could be "ibiety".
So Stein's phrase could be: There's no ibiety there. Incidentally, she was talking about
Oakland, CA, so long ago it must have been pretty small almost a hundred years ago,
compared to Paris, which Stein loved so much.
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nullibiety (or nullibicity) - the condition or state of being nowhere
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the condition or state of being nowhere
So is definitive nullibiety the condition or state of being nowhere in particular?
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How 'bout ubiquitous nullibeity, the state of being nowhere everywhere?
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But "whereness" doesn't come out as well. "Hic" is adv. here, "Hac" is adj. here. Hicety, Hacety. Just don't have any class. A hic jacet was special garment for drunks.
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Ubiety suffuses Milosz's work, though he says that
`whether I wanted this to happen or not, the landscapes
of California have merged with the landscapes of
Lithuania.'" David Kipen, ABCs of Milosz -- A Life in
Letters, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mar 21, 2001.
Sinehow it seems to me that a guy who thinks California can be merged with Lithuania
doesn't know what "ubiety" means.
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Is there a word for elsewhereness, folks ?
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Maybe you could coin one from Peter Pan's Never-Never Land.
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you could coin one from Peter Pan's Never-Never Land.OK! elsewhereness = panubiety 
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Wouldn't panubiety be "everywhereelseness"?
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Wouldn't panubiety be "everywhereelseness"?Actually this relates to that panspermia thread - pan- means everywhere/universal, not "everywhere but where we are". So panubiety means "everywhere that is 'there'"-ness = everywhereelseness [bugger to spell, that] SO you're dead right, Spartan 
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