Definition of thingness
: the quality or state of objective existence or reality
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Examples of thingness in a Sentence
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
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But these moments of exhilaration, and greatness, and surprise are too often offset by a too-much-of-a-good-thingness (especially due to length), and carbon copied moments from Empire and Jedi.
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First Known Use of thingness
1896
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