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thingnesses

thingnesses is the plural of thingness.

Meaning of thingness

Noun

thingness (usually uncountable, plural thingnesses)

  1. (usually) The quality of a material thing; objectivity; actuality; reality.
    • To live as a thing, to live for another and as the other expects, is to live unauthentically or in bad faith. To be true to oneself, one must reduce others to thingness and resist being so reduced.1994, Shadia B Drury, Alexandre Kojève http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312120923&id=zQRKXLwDPc4C&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=zR0NpFT9gF4Mo_VTIPTm1274piI

Questions about thingnesses

What is thingnesses the plural of?
Thingnesses is the plural of thingness.

Words near thingnesses in the dictionary

  1. thingmen
  2. thingmies
  3. thingmy
  4. Thingnam
  5. thingness
  6. thingnesses
  7. thingo
  8. thingodontan
  9. thingodontans
  10. Thingom
  11. thingos

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