thinglike

English

Etymology

thing + -like. Compare English thingly, German dinglich.

Adjective

thinglike (comparative more thinglike, superlative most thinglike)

  1. (philosophy) Resembling a thing; having the properties associated with a physical object; objectlike.
    • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Two,
      Although Tex had assured me only the other day that New Yorkers prized intelligence, I wasn’t sure mine could be counted on. It didn’t feel like a thing in our very thinglike world, a world where identity began with the choice of massive automobile []

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