But there is a some thingness that we haven't found.

The thingness of a magazine, its physical properties, have become increasingly important.

While Sinew was wrestiing with that, she added, "It's the other part he doesn't like, the thingness.

There's a scruffy thingness in Mr. Hillis's stories.

Mr. Turrell calls such works spyspaces and has said his intention is for people "to pay attention to the thingness and revelation of light."

Contrasted to the second cognizance stood the first, which consisted of the "awareness of existence" and the perception of its "thingness."

Though we perceive a world of concrete and discrete objects, designated by names, on close analysis the "thingness" dissolves, leaving them "empty" of inherent existence.

From Peirce, he takes the idea of Secondness, the brute thingness of things which guides our sense of reality.

Many thinkers besides Whitehead have seen that events and processes may be more fundamental expressions of the 'thingness' of things than concepts like substance and matter.

In New Seeds of Contemplation Merton equates the unique "thingness" of a thing, its inscape, to sanctity.

In a most original fashion, for example, Ms. Rabuzzi describes the ways in which what she refers to as extensionality - "thingness" or substance - has been valued more highly than interiority, or "nothingness."

For one thing it involves flesh, blood and the thingness of pen and paper, those anchors that remind us that, however thoroughly we lose ourselves in the vortex of our invention, we inhabit a corporeal world.

The idea of a body of work generated entirely through similarities in sound thrilled a new generation of theorists and experimentalists who wanted to strip language of meaning and reveal its inner opacity - its thingness.

Somehow they came out again, endowed with a new view of Reality, a view that managed to transcend and incorporate Nothingness in Thingness, a vision that achieved meaning and unity in the midst of the Great Vacuum.

In an article titled "Romanticism and the Life of Things," W. J. T. Mitchell observed that the current interest in "material culture, objecthood and thingness" has it roots in Romanticism, though not quite the Romanticism of our forefathers.