Definition of Thingness

1. Noun. The quality of a material thing; objectivity; actuality; reality. ¹

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Definition of Thingness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thingness

thingiest
thingified
thingifies
thingify
thingifying
thingish
thinglike
thingliness
thingly
thingmabob
thingmajig
thingman
thingmen
thingmies
thingmy
thingness
thingnesses
thingo
things
things-in-themselves
things that go bump in the night
thingumabob
thingumajig
thingumajigs
thingummies
thingummy
thingummyjig
thingy
thinhorn sheep
thining

Literary usage of Thingness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1867)
"[d] This is the positive Universality: the abstract medium of Thingness, ... Thus .the positive universality of the thingness becomes thing by and ..."

2. A Vers de Société Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1907)
"She smiled a dreamy smile, and said, "The Thingness of the Here Is that ... Indeed," the maid continued, with a calm, unruffled brow, "The Thingness of the ..."

3. Hegel's Doctrine of Reflection: Being a Paraphrase and a Commentary by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1881)
"... moments as having their negative unity in the Thingness, ie, in the basis different from and other to themselves, and in the other case they regard the ..."

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