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Tangibility

noun
1.
The quality of being perceivable by touch.  Synonyms: palpability, tangibleness.






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"Tangibility" Quotes from Famous Books



... unchangeable substance (e.g. the clay-matter) alone is true, and the changing forms are mere illusions of the senses, mere objects of name (nama-rupa) [Footnote ref 1]. What we call tangibility, visibility, or other sense-qualities, have no real existence, for they are always changing, and are like mere phantoms of which no conception can be made by the ...
— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... conception of the Jews was more vague, perhaps, but equally affecting; they were satisfied with carrying in their minds the faint outline of the sublime, without seeking to chisel it into dimension and tangibility. They cherished in their bosoms their sacred ideal, and worshipped from far the greatness of the majesty that shaded their imaginations. Hence we look to Athens for art, to Palestine for ethics; the one produces ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various



Words linked to "Tangibility" :   corporality, corporeality, tangible, intangibility, impalpability, materiality, physicalness



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