thinghoodn.
/ˈθɪŋhʊd/, U.S. /ˈθɪŋˌ(h)ʊd/ The state or character of being a thing (sometimes spec. as distinct from a person); existence as a thing, reality, substantiality.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun]
truthc1330
acta1398
in existencea1425
realty1440
veritya1634
reality1647
actualness1668
actuality1675
thinghood1845
factual1855
out there1955
1845 A. Stewart Legal Argument Deliv. from Bondage 35 A man who is a slave according to slave law, has lost his personage..and has passed into chattlehood [sic], or thinghood, and all the rights of person are annihilated.
1865 J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) ii. 28 Any form of thinghood or reality.
1888 L. Abbott in Cent. Mag. Aug. 624/1 The materialism that puts thinghood above manhood.
1919 A. N. Whitehead Enq. Princ. Nat. Knowl. ii. vi. 73 Events appear as indefinite entities without clear demarcations and with mutual relations of baffling complexity. They seem..deficient in thinghood.
1972 L. Hudson Cult of Fact 76 To know about nature, and especially about people, in a way that reduces them to thing-hood, is to pursue knowledge in a way that is inimical to the proper growth of human self-awareness.
2002 D. Garrett in O. Koistinen & J. Biro Spinoza vii. 151 The general approach to substantiality or ‘thinghood’ that Spinoza's argument represents is attractive and deserving of serious consideration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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