materiality noun.
[mǝtɪǝrɪ'alɪti] E16.[Orig. from medieval Latin materialitas material quality or embodiment. Later from MATERIAL + -ITY.]1. That which constitutes the matter or material of something. Long
rare.
E16.2. a. The quality of being composed of matter.
L16.■ G. Adams The decomposition of the rays of light proves their materiality.b. That which is material; in
pl., material things.
E19.3. Material aspect or character.
L16.■ Dennis Potter It..cannot release the smallest breath of life out of the suffocatingly dead materiality of things.4. Now chiefly
Law. The quality of being relevant or significant.
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