materiality
noun
material nature or quality.
materialities
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pluralof materiality.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Substance comprises all corporal materialities: instinctive needs, irrational movements, in a word, all actions where common sense is not a factor.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
The arc of descent ends in materialities, and the arc of ascent ends in spiritualities.
From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá
Suzanna stood a long time at the window, so long indeed that Maizie feared she was lost to all materialities.
From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Emily Calvin Blake
His clothes were a necessary envelope, to which he paid not the slightest attention, for his eyes looked too high among the clouds to concern themselves with such materialities.
From A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac
There is something about an empty room, empty except of memories, but containing nothing besides, no materialities, no certainties as to the future, which is intimidating to one who stops and thinks.
From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Harold M. Brett
