kimance

Definition

The attentive-here-ness of a person whose gaze is open, whose listening is active, and whose response-potential is oriented toward the present situation — the quality of being-in-attendance, not mere co-location.

The gap it fills

the perception of someone being attentively-present — gaze open, listening active, response-potential oriented toward the present situation — versus physically-there-but-absent

The stones it is built from

• kigathered life-attention-presence — Japanese · 気 [content]
• mancequality-mode suffix (mance in English: romance, necromance) — Gr/En · -mantia [suffix]

Evidential structure

The affixes carved into the word: -mance — quality-mode suffix (mance in English: romance, necromance).