Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being touchable; tangibility.
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- noun The quality of being
touchable ;tangibility .
Etymologies
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touchable + -ness
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Examples
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There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
The World I Live In Helen Keller 1924
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The thing that marked her most, an alluring touchableness, was doubly present as she came toward us, laughing, with
Nancy Stair A Novel Elinor Macartney Lane 1886
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