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

“Tim likes the reality of things and the tangibility of things,” Scruton adds.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

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

But I could not force myself to the gross materialism of calling this invisible existence a spirit, for tangibility was a quality I could not associate with pure spirit, and I had touched it.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various