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

Thus the taste and smell of any fruit are inseparable from its other qualities of colour and tangibility; and whichever of them be the cause or effect, it is certain they are always co-existent.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David