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Thingness vs Thinness - What's the difference?

thingness | thinness |

As nouns the difference between thingness and thinness

is that thingness is the quality of a material thing; objectivity; actuality; reality while thinness is the state of being thin.

thingness

English

Noun

  • The quality of a material thing; objectivity; actuality; reality.
  • * 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]
    • 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.
  • * 1998, William C Chittick, The Self-Disclosure of God [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0791434036&id=HKvcLT881KsC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&sig=MwptOcI_pBuYMCxidBTxXhoKhaM]
    • Whether we dwell in the thingness' of fixity or the '''thingness of ''wuj?d,'' we are “at” the ''wuj?d of the Real.
  • * 2002, Kai Hammermeister, The German Aesthetic Tradition [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521785545&id=n4lGu9hu_ewC&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176&sig=QuC-Pn46rPB8OFi2S9KtvMmExh0]
    • The thingness of a thing precedes the conscious perception of its sensual properties.

    See also

    * thinghood

    References

    * "thingness", Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, [Retrieved January 8, 2005]. * "thingness", Encarta World English Dictionary, [Retrieved January 8, 2005]. * "thingness", Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997) [Retrieved January 8, 2005].

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    thinness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being thin.