MATERIALITY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does materiality mean? 

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

1. relevance requiring careful consideration

2. the quality of being physical; consisting of matter

  Familiarity information: MATERIALITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATERIALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relevance requiring careful consideration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

relevance; relevancy (the relation of something to the matter at hand)

Antonym:

immateriality (complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration)

Derivation:

material (directly relevant to a matter especially a law case)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being physical; consisting of matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness

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

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

Attribute:

material (derived from or composed of matter)

immaterial; nonmaterial (not consisting of matter)

corporeal; material (having material or physical form or substance)

immaterial; incorporeal (without material form or substance)

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

concreteness (the quality of being concrete (not abstract))

palpability; tangibility; tangibleness (the quality of being perceivable by touch)

solidness; substantiality; substantialness (the quality of being substantial or having substance)

reality (the quality possessed by something that is real)

Antonym:

immateriality (the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter)

Derivation:

material (derived from or composed of matter)

material (having material or physical form or substance)