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Definition of Physicalness
1. Noun. The quality of being physical; consisting of matter.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Concreteness, Palpability, Tangibility, Tangibleness, Solidness, Substantiality, Substantialness, Reality
Attributes: Material, Immaterial, Nonmaterial, Corporeal, Material, Immaterial, Incorporeal
Derivative terms: Corporeal, Material, Material, Physical, Physical, Physical
Antonyms: Incorporeality, Immateriality
Definition of Physicalness
1. Noun. The condition of being physical; physicality ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Physicalness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Physicalness
Literary usage of Physicalness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selections from Manuscripts by James Hinton (1874)
"As the relative reality in the stereoscope has less of physicalness than the
appearance—the reality being surface only; so may not the absolute reality ..."
2. The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (1881)
"... consists the wisdom of life and thought;—1 do not need a God who supplies by
a mystical, imaginary physicalness or sensuousness the absence of the real. ..."
3. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher (1873)
"I observe, for instance, in the progress of the lower animal in man up toward
the higher—in this progress from mere physicalness toward intelligence—that ..."
4. Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher (1875)
"... that it is something by which a man may lift himself up out from under the
dominion of physicalness, of materiality, and become baptized into the ..."
5. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1908)
"... ie the two notions of (a) the physicalness, the actuality of evil, and (6)
the possibility of contagion and transfer. Our whole modern conception of the ..."
6. Man and His Dwelling Place: An Essay Towards the Interpretation of Nature by James Hinton (1872)
"physicalness is excluded by denial of its characteristic property of ceasing.
A worm and fire not physical, what should they be but the devouring and ..."
7. Twenty Years in the Himalaya by Hon. Charles Granville Bruce (1910)
"This is not a Sahara, a flatterer of the senses ; it is a producer of human
beings, not automata ; physicalness may be rather too apparent, ..."
8. Philosophy and Religion: Selections from the Manuscripts of the Late James by James Hinton (1881)
"... the idea of the point, and so absolute unity involves infinity, and infinity
absolute unity; ie no dimensions, no physicalness. ..."
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