thingliness

noun

thingliness

noun

Etymology From thingly + -ness.

1

The quality of being thingly.

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.2009 August 30, Jonathan Lethem, “Eyes Wide Open”, in New York Times:

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