(adv.) At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; -- used interrogatively.
(adv.) At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; -- used relatively.
(adv.) To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going?
(conj.) Whereas.
(n.) Place; situation.
Example Sentences:
Whereness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of having a place; ubiety; situation; position.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cells in males and females were equal in number until 4 days of age, wheres thereafter the increase of the cell number in females exceeded that in males.
(2) Smith said that with Pushkin Press's recent reissuing of much of Zweig's writing, "it's becoming more and more apparent how seminal and original Zweig was and how revelatory of the wheres and whys of the time when fin-de-siecle exploded into Freudianism and empire into full-blown fascism".
(3) Chromosomes 4, 5, 8, and 13 were found to terminate DNA replication later in lymphocytes than in fibroblasts, wheres chromosomes 15, 19, 20, and 22 were found to terminate their replication earlier in lymphocytes than in fibroblasts.
(4) Patients with lesion in the nondominant hemisphere, particularly at the junction of the occipito-temporoparietal regions, may manifest predominantly visuospatial dysgnosia--a loss of the sense of "whereness" in the relation of himself to his environment and in the relation of objects to each other.