[f. as TANGIBLE: see -ILITY.] The state or quality of being tangible; perceptibility to the touch; tangibleness.
1649. Jenison, Treat. on 1 Tim. vi. 20, 31. Ancient Creeds, which tell us, that all the proprieties of the humane nature doe remain, as tangibility, locality, &c.
1665. Needham, Med. Medicinæ, 99. As if they did touch after the gross manner of tangibilitie.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 770. Tangibility and impenetrability, were elsewhere made by him the very essence of body.
1823. Coleridge, Table-t., 3 Jan. Define a vulgar ghost…. It is visibility without tangibility.
b. With a and pl.: A tangible thing or matter.
1829. Mrs. Robertson, Florence, II. ix. 143. While on earth, we must have tangibilities in order to the preservation of any system: our corporeal state renders this indispensable.
1849. H. Miller, Footpr. Creat., xiv. 255. Cut off … from all the tangibilities of the real waking-day world.
