tangibility

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.

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

“The tangibility of having to physically be present to build, I never want that to disappear,” she says.

There's something meditative and grounding about the tangibility of working with various fruits and vegetables, peeling and chopping and coaxing them into some form that will eventually lend itself to a composed dish of sorts.

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.