thingliness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

thingly +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

thingliness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being thingly.
    • 2009 August 30, Jonathan Lethem, “Eyes Wide Open”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      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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