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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

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

She had passed that stage in which a man regards his child with despair; she had passed out of slippery and evasive doughiness into a firm tangibility that made it some pleasure to hold her.

From A Modern Instance by Howells, William Dean