thingness

thingness

noun

Definition of THINGNESS

the fact of being or of being real <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>

Synonyms actuality, corporality, corporeality, reality, subsistence, thingness

Related Words genuineness, realness; activity, animation, life; currency, presence, prevalence

Near Antonyms absence, dearth, lack, want; potentiality, virtuality

Antonyms inexistence, nonbeing, nonexistence, nothingness, unreality