English

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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