Etymology

thingness

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Today it means: The quality of a material thing; objectivity; actuality; reality. Full definition →

English thing ← Middle English thing ← Old English þing
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*tenk-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tenkóm
  3. Proto-Germanic*þingą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*þing
  5. Old Englishþing
  6. Middle Englishthing
  7. Englishthing
  8. English todaythingness

From thing + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.