tangibility.

1. The capacity to be physically touched or apprehended as a material object.

2. Concreteness or readiness to be apprehended or demonstrated.

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Words that belong together

• tangibility of an object
• physical tangibility

On the page

The object’s tangibility contrasted with the purely verbal promise.

Physical tangibility did not make the object’s origin easy to establish.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.