materiality
[muh-teer-ee-al-i-tee]
Origin of materiality
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Examples from the Web for materiality
Contemporary Examples
There is, at the end, no comeuppance, just a sense of the stealth poison of materiality—its psychic numbing.
Materiality is a Taurus watchword and Johns incorporated various media into his work.
All the smells and the gooeyness of it all, and just the materiality of it is exciting.
Historical Examples
To get to the principle of all life, as also of all materiality, we must go further still.
Creative EvolutionHenri Bergson
Materiality may very well stand the brunt of that unshotted broadside.
Handbook of FreethoughtVarious
It is the consciousness of good only, without a trace of materiality or evil.
Carmen ArizaCharles Francis Stocking
Sculpture dispenses with color, painting with the materiality of form.
From the Oak to the OliveJulia Ward Howe
In other words, materiality and reality are not inseparably associated.
BeyondHenry Seward Hubbard
materiality
- the state or quality of being physical or material
- substance; matter
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Word Origin and History for materiality
n.
1520s, "that which is the matter of something," from Modern Latin materialitas, from materialis (see material (adj.)). From 1560s as "quality of being material;" 1640s as "quality of being important to matters at hand."
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