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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024

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.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 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

If a child contemplates his hand, he is conscious of its existence in a double manner—in the first place by its tangibility, the second by its image on the retina of his eye.

From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Bragdon, Claude Fayette