thingliness
English
Etymology
thingly + -ness
Noun
thingliness (uncountable)
- The quality of being thingly.
- 2009 August 30, Jonathan Lethem, “Eyes Wide Open”, in New York Times:
- The wrinkly recursiveness of her language seems lodged at the layer of consciousness itself, where Moore demands readers’ attention to the innate thingliness of words.
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