immateriality

American  

[im-uh-teer-ee-al-i-tee] / ˌɪm əˌtɪər iˈæl ɪ ti /

noun

immaterialities plural

1. state or character of being immaterial.

2. something immaterial.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• immaterialities
  plural

Etymology

Origin of immateriality

First recorded in 1560–70; immaterial + -ity

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

immateriality immaterialities

It includes, or at least invites, us—drawing us into the scene as our gaze continues upward into celestial immateriality, all courtesy of the materiality of paint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

The project captures contradictions in the NFT world between its claims for a transcendent new immateriality and the very earthbound bling involved in almost all its transactions.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

Some say the density of tungsten contrasts with the immateriality of crypto Why exactly this happened isn’t all that important.

From The Verge ● Nov. 3, 2021

Grosse uses industrial spray paint on thin fabric, which is hung, not stretched, giving the painting a kind of liminal immateriality.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2019

I recollect such fears about the invisible world becoming visible—I walked amidst a multitude of unseen terrors, ever ready to burst the casement of immateriality, and to stand, naked, confessed, in material semblance, before me.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

Classicism in both England and France was not greatly imitative of either Sophocles or Racine, but mainly insistent on immaterialities.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

Contradictory facts are eliminated, until heart answers to heart across the welter of immaterialities.

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss