TANGIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tangibility mean? 

• TANGIBILITY (noun)
  The noun TANGIBILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being perceivable by touch

  Familiarity information: TANGIBILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANGIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being perceivable by touch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

palpability; tangibility; tangibleness

Hypernyms ("tangibility" is a kind of...):

corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)

Antonym:

intangibility (the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch)

Derivation:

tangible (capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt)

tangible (perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch)

 Context examples 

What he saw took on tangibility.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Near the horizon the sun was smouldering dimly, almost obscured by formless mists and vapors, which gave an impression of mass and density without outline or tangibility.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)