单词 | thinginess |
释义 | > as lemmasˈthinginess ˈthinginess n. the quality of being thingy; (a) reality, actuality, objectivity; (b) devotion to or concern with things, practical or matter-of-fact character. ΘΚΠ 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). < as lemmas |
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