thingliness

English

Etymology

From thingly +‎ -ness.

Noun

thingliness (uncountable)

1. 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.