thingliness
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From
thingly
+
-ness
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Noun
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thingliness
(
uncountable
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The quality of being
thingly
.
2009
August 30, Jonathan Lethem, “Eyes Wide Open”, in
New York Times
[1]
:
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.
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