thingness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thingness
Example Sentences
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The thingness of nature is deeply set in Western thought; recalibration will be complex.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
It seems to embody the pitfalls and contradictions that come with critiquing the institution from within, and also the ways that an object can cut through critique and simply broadcast its thingness.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2019
Or has Sartre would have it, 'No thingness'.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2017
That objects give way to equations, that thingness melts to abstraction.
From Scientific American • Jan. 31, 2014
It asserts of a certain class of actions exactly what "gravitation" asserts of a certain class of motion, and "thingness" is no more asserted in the one case than it is in the other.
From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman
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