Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The abstract nature or essential quality of a table. See the quotation under gobletity.
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Examples
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'I can see a table and a goblet,' said the cynic, 'but I can see no such things as tableity and gobletity.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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'I can see a table and a goblet,' said the cynic, 'but I can see no such things as tableity and gobletity.'
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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'Quite so,' answered Plato, 'because you have the eyes to see a goblet and a table with, but you have not the brains to understand tableity and gobletity.' “
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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“Plato was talking about ideas, and spoke of mensality and cyathity [tableity, and gobletity].
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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'Quite so,' answered Plato, 'because you have the eyes to see a goblet and a table with, but you have not the brains to understand tableity and gobletity.'"
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
ruzuzu commented on the word tableity
"The abstract nature or essential quality of a table."
--Century Dictionary
March 16, 2011
yarb commented on the word tableity
Ha ha! I don't know what to say!
March 16, 2011
bilby commented on the word tableity
"After my tablet PC was rendered useless by just a single lunch's spatter of olive oil and breadcrumbs, I rounded on the manufacturer over their device's unsatisfactory tableity."
March 17, 2011