thingness
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noun \ˈthiŋ-nəs\Definition of THINGNESS
: the quality or state of objective existence or reality
Examples of THINGNESS
- <conceptual artists have taken the thingness out of art, asserting that the artistic vision is embodied in the concept and not in any particular object>
First Known Use of THINGNESS
1896
Related to THINGNESS
- Synonyms
- actuality, corporality, corporeality, reality, subsistence, existence
- Antonyms
- inexistence, nonbeing, nonexistence, nothingness, unreality
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