tangibility

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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

“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

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

The immediate grounds of a man's size, visibility, tangibility, &c?—But these are in a continual flux even as a column of smoke.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor