tangibility

Example Sentences

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In contrast, the ease of digital payments often results in mindless spending, as the tangibility of cash is replaced by abstract numbers on a screen.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Eric Hoffer famously said that “Usually the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil.”

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2024

Residents interact with the fruits of the SDOT’s labor every day, by car, foot, bus or bike — a level of tangibility not always obvious in, say, the Department of Neighborhoods.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Now, when she misses him most, she listens to the recordings, grateful for the tangibility of his voice floating into her ear.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2021

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 light of reason.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath