thingness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of a material thing; objectivity; actuality; reality. uncountable,usually
    — 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.

词形变化

thingnesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tenk-?
Proto-Indo-European *tenkóm
Proto-Germanic *þingą
Proto-West Germanic *þing
Old English þing
Middle English thing
English thing
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English thingness
From thing + -ness.
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