"thinglike" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "thing + -like",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "thingly"
      },
      "expansion": "English thingly",
      "name": "noncog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "dinglich"
      },
      "expansion": "German dinglich",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From thing + -like. Compare English thingly, German dinglich.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more thinglike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most thinglike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Philosophy",
          "orig": "en:Philosophy",
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
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        {
          "ref": "1988, Edmund White, chapter 2, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:",
          "text": "Although Tex had assured me only the other day that New Yorkers prized intelligence, I wasn’t sure mine could be counted on. It didn’t feel like a thing in our very thinglike world, a world where identity began with the choice of massive automobile […]",
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        }
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        "Resembling a thing; having the properties associated with a physical object; objectlike."
      ],
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          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ],
        [
          "objectlike",
          "objectlike"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(philosophy) Resembling a thing; having the properties associated with a physical object; objectlike."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thinglike"
}

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "thing",
        "3": "like"
      },
      "expansion": "thing + -like",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "thingly"
      },
      "expansion": "English thingly",
      "name": "noncog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "dinglich"
      },
      "expansion": "German dinglich",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From thing + -like. Compare English thingly, German dinglich.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more thinglike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most thinglike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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        {
          "ref": "1988, Edmund White, chapter 2, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:",
          "text": "Although Tex had assured me only the other day that New Yorkers prized intelligence, I wasn’t sure mine could be counted on. It didn’t feel like a thing in our very thinglike world, a world where identity began with the choice of massive automobile […]",
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        }
      ],
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        "Resembling a thing; having the properties associated with a physical object; objectlike."
      ],
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        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ],
        [
          "objectlike",
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        ]
      ],
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        "(philosophy) Resembling a thing; having the properties associated with a physical object; objectlike."
      ],
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        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
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