thinglike
Having item qualities
Thinglike means resembling a thing—having the qualities of an object rather than a person, idea, or abstraction.
The word often carries a slightly dismissive or reductive tone, suggesting something lacks the vitality or complexity you might expect: The conversation had a thinglike quality, mechanical and hollow.
Resembling another thing
- analogousComparable in certain respects
- comparableAble to be likened
- approximatingGetting close to
- suggestingOffering an idea indirectly
evoking · reminiscent · quasi · pseudo · ersatz · semblance · facsimile · imitation
similar
Resembling another thing
- analogousComparable in certain respects
- comparableAble to be likened
- approximatingGetting close to
suggesting · evoking · reminiscent · quasi · pseudo · ersatz · semblance · facsimile · imitation · simulacrum
tangible
Perceptible by touch
substance · artifact · item · entity · commodity · apparatus · equipment · stuff · possession · belonging
concept
Abstract mental construct
- notionImprecise mental impression
- entityIndependent existing thing
- phenomenonExtraordinary observable occurrence
idea · essence · principle · element · abstraction · construct · quality · attribute · property · characteristic
thinglikeabstract
Condensed version of text
immaterial · intangible · incorporeal · nonphysical · ethereal
thinglikerelational
Concerning connections between things
dynamic · fluid · emergent · phenomenal · experiential
thing, things, like, liked, likes, liking, likeness, unlike, unlikely