A patient seeker will be satisfied in due time; patience is a virtue.

(dated) A patient person will be satisfied in due time; patience is a virtue.

(informal) A thingy; something whose name cannot be recalled.

The quality, condition, or character of being a thing.

(philosophy, art, linguistics) Pertaining to the substance of a work, separate from what is conveyed; material, substantive. / Actual; real; substantial.

(philosophy) Resembling a thing; having the properties associated with a physical object; objectlike.

(philosophy) monism

(chiefly philosophy) Like a physical, tangible thing; objective.

plural of thinger

A realist; one who considers only things or objects. / A practical or matter-of-fact person.