tangibility

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being perceptible by touch

   The philosopher treated color and tangibility as sensory qualities of extension.

2. 2
   noun

   the quality of being concrete, definite, or real rather than abstract

   A working prototype gave the proposal a new tangibility.

Formed from tangible + -ity. Tangible comes from Late Latin tangibilis, 'that may be touched,' from Latin tangere, 'to touch.'

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