thinglike
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From thing + -like. Compare English thingly, German dinglich.
Adjective
[edit]thinglike (comparative more thinglike, superlative most thinglike)
- (philosophy) Resembling a thing; having the properties associated with a physical object; objectlike.
- 1988, Edmund White, chapter 2, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
- 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 […]