Thinghood

[Merna]

Noun. An Aristotelian-derived term which references that which makes a thing itself. Taken up in the [Metaphysics] where it is is also more [confusedly] known as substance. Not [contingent] on material. The first, or most primary way of being.

[Merna]

The state or character of being a thing (sometimes specifically as distinct from a person); existence as a thing, reality, substantiality.