Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The property of being tangible, or perceptible to the touch or sense of feeling; tangibleness.
Wiktionary
- n. The property of being tangible.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being tangible.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being perceivable by touch
Examples
“I fear that removing that tangibility from the film will remove our connection to the apes and their struggle and subsequent uprising.”
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“(known as tangibility), could be of no educational value.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“Ideally, any such market appropriately discounts value based upon considerations such as tangibility, contingency, etc.”
Why not qualify the taking away of virtual objects as theft?
“In spite, however, of its evident advantages, many years went by before the new system obtained recognition, even in countries where, for lack of "tangibility" in the existing systems, the use of books in the class-room had been almost unknown.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“+ (2) its "tangibility", or efficiency in impressing the sense of touch, enabling the blind not only to read but also to write;”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“With producer Neal Moritz and writer John August on board, a Preacher film became a distant tangibility.”
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“A lot of it has to do with the tangibility of the reward.”
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“The application of these laws is yet unknown; their utility in serving as a solution to this problem is unlikely considering the issue lies not with knowing behaviors are wrong and doing it anyway, but from ignorance of the tangibility of its consequences and the broadcast power of technology.”
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“Near the horizon the sun was smouldering dimly, almost obscured by formless mists and vapors, which gave an impression of mass and density without outline or tangibility.”
“She was thrilling with unexpressed love for the mother she had never seen, and this written speech from the grave seemed to give more tangibility to her having ever existed, than did the vision of her.”
Lists
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Touchy
Touch-sense metaphors, words and terms.
Includes general touch-oriented metaphors; words that seem like puns but reference the sense of touch, like: grasp (to grasp a concept), feeli...kinaesthesia, somatosensory, grasp, feelings, touchy, rubs, poke, kinesthetic, feels, hold, hands-on, moving and 14 more...
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words that trip off the tongue
ideology, phallocentric, parapraxis, gelid, illusion, tangible, tangibility, crux, medusa, noir, chloroform, chap and 98 more...
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