as in negligibility
the quality or state of being unimportant
the cost of such a lavish affair may be a matter of some immateriality to the wedding planner, but not to the person who has to foot the bill
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Recent Examples of immateriality
The material’s very immateriality disguises the building’s mass, somehow making the immense, mountainous structure appear as light as a balloon, an extraordinary feat.
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Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
McCarthy has pocketed his own liturgical, ecstatic style as one would a coin, a ring, a key, in the service of a more demanding and heartless inquiry through mathematics and physics into the immateriality, the indeterminacy, of reality.
—Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
Grosse uses industrial spray paint on thin fabric, which is hung, not stretched, giving the painting a kind of liminal immateriality.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
This is a small, quiet show that potently traverses realms of materiality and immateriality, connecting ideas about what’s seen and unseen, and what’s in-between.
—Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
In her immateriality, Melania well represents the status of women under Trump — absent, frozen out, erased from the picture.
—Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 11 June 2018
For all their seeming immateriality, the internet and the cloud rely on a vast industrial infrastructure consisting of data centers linked through a sprawling network of fiber optics.
—James Glanz, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
McCarthy has pocketed his own liturgical, ecstatic style as one would a coin, a ring, a key, in the service of a more demanding and heartless inquiry through mathematics and physics into the immateriality, the indeterminacy, of reality.
—Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
Grosse uses industrial spray paint on thin fabric, which is hung, not stretched, giving the painting a kind of liminal immateriality.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
This is a small, quiet show that potently traverses realms of materiality and immateriality, connecting ideas about what’s seen and unseen, and what’s in-between.
—Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
In her immateriality, Melania well represents the status of women under Trump — absent, frozen out, erased from the picture.
—Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 11 June 2018
For all their seeming immateriality, the internet and the cloud rely on a vast industrial infrastructure consisting of data centers linked through a sprawling network of fiber optics.
—James Glanz, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
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“Immateriality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immateriality. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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