单词 | thingness |
释义 | thingnessn. The fact or character of being a thing (sometimes spec. as distinct from a person); reality; actuality. 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 1840 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. 1 Apr. 329 On looking at any thing, say a book, the first impression that enters the mind, is its individuality or its thingness—that it is a certain something. 1896 A. C. Fraser Philos. Theism 2nd Ser. vi. 150 Personality instead of thingness is the highest form under which man..can conceive of God. 1930 W. Lewis Apes of God ix. 288 Health as intended by Kalman is ‘thingness’ right enough! It is vegetable bulk, it is unconsciousness. 1967 S. Beckett No's Knife 34 Into what nightmare thingness am I fallen? 1998 D. Mao Solid Obj. i. 46 Sartre aptly captures Woolf's interest in both the thingness of the thing itself and the tendency of the mind to make comparisons in the thing's despite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840 |
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