tableness

The quality of being a table.

Noun

  1. The quality of being a table.
    • When Plato spoke of tableness and cupness, Diogenes the Cynic said: 'I see a table and a cup, to be sure, but not tableness and cupness.' 'Right,' answered Plato; 'for you have eyes wherewith to see the table and the...
    • […] implies a philosophical distinction between bookness and tableness. There is no more requirement to show why an experience cannot be a brain-state than there is to show why a book cannot be a table. - 1969, Gerald...
    • The exceedingly dry joke is that it is not a small table but a small amount of what might be called tableness. - 2009 June 12, Ken Johnson, “Close Encounters With Tableness and Chairness”, in The New York Times:

    Synonyms: tableity

Origin

From table + -ness.