Thisness

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The qualities, properties or characteristics of a thing which make it a particular thing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or quality of being this; hæcceity.
  • Word Usage
    "Other times they're constructed to isolate a telling detail that creates what Wood calls thisness, which he defines as "any detail that draws abstraction toward itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability.""