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, existenceRelated Words genuineness, realness; activity, animation, life; currency, presence, prevalenceNear Antonyms absence, dearth, lack, want; potentiality, virtualityAntonyms inexistence, nonbeing, nonexistence, nothingness, unreality