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单词 thinginess
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ˈthinginess
ˈthinginess n. the quality of being thingy; (a) reality, actuality, objectivity; (b) devotion to or concern with things, practical or matter-of-fact character.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] > reality or quality of being real
reality1545
formality1570
trueness1604
realness1612
thatness1643
positivity1659
actualness1668
positiveness1668
thingsomeness1674
somethingness1675
thingship1697
authenticity1839
thingness1840
truth1842
isness1865
thinginess1891
the world > action or operation > advantage > expediency > expedience > [noun] > pragmatism or practicality
practicalness1657
pragmaticality1836
practicality1841
practicalism1843
pragmatism1872
thinginess1891
Kitchenerism1901
hard-boiledness1912
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [noun] > quality
matter-of-factness1816
thinginess1891
literal-mindedness1927
1891 Cent. Dict. Thinginess.
1892 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 186 426 The result..serves to still further cast doubt upon the ‘thinginess’ of energy.
1914 Morning Post 26 Feb. 2/2 Let us hear the second~hand eloquence of one of those second-rate authorities in his vain attempt to get at the thinginess of such things.
1976 New Yorker 15 Mar. 118/2 The very thinginess of the contemporary city life in the film shows—the fast cars, the unobtrusive chic, the small cafes—seems to deprive us of any illumination.
1982 T. Gunn Occasions of Poetry i. 22 He was in love with the bare fact of the external world, its thinginess.
2003 Guardian 16 Aug. (Review section) 12/4 What academics call ‘material history’ (by which is meant the thinginess of the past, its shapes and textures—who made them, who owned them).
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