materiality
materiality
nounDefinition of MATERIALITY
1
something that actually exists <preferred a single materiality to a slew of hypotheticals>
Related Words certainty, inevitability; circumstance, event, occurrence, phenomenon; element, item, particular, thing
2
the fact or state of being pertinent <the materiality of that fact is not in dispute>
Related Words appositeness, appropriateness, aptness, felicitousness, fitness, fittingness, rightness, seemliness, suitability, suitableness; importance, significance; usefulness
Near Antonyms inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptness, infelicity, unfitness, unsuitability; insignificance; meaninglessness, pointlessness, uselessness
3
the quality of being actual <seems to question the very materiality of the universe>
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