IMMATERIALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immateriality mean? 

• IMMATERIALITY (noun)
  The noun IMMATERIALITY has 2 senses:

1. complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration

2. the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter

  Familiarity information: IMMATERIALITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMATERIALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("immateriality" is a kind of...):

irrelevance; irrelevancy (the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand)

Antonym:

materiality (relevance requiring careful consideration)

Derivation:

immaterial ((often followed by 'to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other)

immaterial (of no importance or relevance especially to a law case)

immaterial (not pertinent to the matter under consideration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

immateriality; incorporeality

Hypernyms ("immateriality" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immateriality"):

impalpability; intangibility; intangibleness (the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch)

insubstantiality (lacking substance or reality)

abstractness (the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object)

unreality (the quality possessed by something that is unreal)

Antonym:

materiality (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)

Derivation:

immaterial (not consisting of matter)

immaterial (without material form or substance)

 Context examples 

I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)