thinginess

I think the "thinginess" of picturebooks is going to be replaced by a new "thinginess" of the digital book sometime soon.

Digital reviewing Roger Sutton 2009

But for Jones, the 'thinginess' of a product of art could not be, as for Gill, primarily or perhaps exclusively its firm and defined location in the geography of a theologically mapped culture.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 2: David Jones: Material Words 2005

I listened to a lot of archived interviews of John Updike in the wake of his death and was struck by how often he talked about his love for the “thinginess” (his word) of books: the paper, the ink, the letterforms, the jacket design, the heft.

Digital reviewing Roger Sutton 2009

As in "readiness and browniness piled up in a female version of Trump's thinginess"

Did Palin's Pay As Wasilla Mayor Really Get Cut? 2009

Similarly, while the marriage market plays a role, Disch doesn't have any interest in Victorian commodity culture or "thinginess."

Clara Reeve 2004

Similarly, while the marriage market plays a role, Disch doesn't have any interest in Victorian commodity culture or "thinginess."

The Little Professor: 2004