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thingish

thingish adjective: like a physical, tangible thing; objective.

Adjective

thingish (comparative more thingish, superlative most thingish)

  1. Like a physical, tangible thing; objective.
    • (However, Sellars vehemently rejects that this would imply they are merely ‘in the eye of the beholder’—despite starting as mere posits of a theoretician, once the theory acquires a certain social status, they become as thingish as a thing can be.)2008 April 3, Jaroslav Peregrin, “Book Reviews”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 131–135

Forms of thingish

comparativemore thingish
superlativemost thingish

Origin of thingish

From thing + -ish.

Questions about thingish

What does thingish mean?
Thingish means like a physical, tangible thing; objective.
What part of speech is thingish?
Thingish is an adjective.

Words near thingish in the dictionary

  1. thingifies
  2. thingify
  3. thingifying
  4. thinginess
  5. thinging
  6. thingish
  7. thingism
  8. thingless
  9. thinglet
  10. thinglets
  11. Thingley

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