1890 5 June 2316/2 Yet is space no thingish entity, no tangible object.
1929 38 222 A substrate does not have to be of a thingish nature; it may be purely imaginary.
1997 H. B. Wiebe v. 151 William James observed a century ago that the focus had shifted to consciousness or mental events—terms that have the advantage of sounding much less ‘thingish’ than soul or even mind.