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materiality

[ muh-teer-ee-al-i-tee ]

/ məˌtɪər iˈæl ɪ ti /

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noun, plural ma·te·ri·al·i·ties for 2.

material nature or quality.

something material.

Origin of materiality

From the Medieval Latin word māteriālitās, dating back to 1520–30. See material, -ity

Words nearby materiality

material implication, material mode, materialism, materialist, materialistic, materiality, materialize, materially, materials, materials handling, materials science

Example sentences from the Web for materiality

There is, at the end, no comeuppance, just a sense of the stealth poison of materiality—its psychic numbing.

Literary Gold in Hard Times |Chloë Schama |November 4, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Materiality is a Taurus watchword and Johns incorporated various media into his work.

Your Horoscopes: May 15-21 |Starsky + Cox |May 14, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
All the smells and the gooeyness of it all, and just the materiality of it is exciting.

My Conversation with John Updike |Barbara Probst Solomon |January 29, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
The case would be governed otherwise by the principle of materiality of the breach, to which we have alluded.

Commercial Law |Samuel Williston, Richard D. Currier, and Richard W. Hill

So far as the different qualities are evidences, the mind has as good a claim to materiality as the stone or wood.

Absurdities of Immaterialism |Orson Pratt
This question of materiality was still a puzzle; if he himself had survived there was a chance that the firearm had done the same.

The Blind Spot |Austin Hall
They can be touched, weighed and measured; but their materiality is of a special sort whose vital reactions are as yet unknown.

Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas |Remy de Gourmont
The Judge did not perceive the materiality of the distinction.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 |American Anti-Slavery Society

British Dictionary definitions for materiality

materiality

/ (məˌtɪərɪˈælɪtɪ) /

noun

the state or quality of being physical or material

substance; matter