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