materiality

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materiality

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From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās.

noun materialities

  1. countable, uncountable The quality of being material; having a physical existence. This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a
  2. countable, uncountable The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.

Opposite: immateriality, ethereality

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noun

Opposite: immateriality, ethereality

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"materiality." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/materiality. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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materiality. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/materiality

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@misc{materiality_2026,
  title = {materiality},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/materiality},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}