materiality

The quality of being material; having a physical existence.

Noun

  1. The quality of being material; having a physical existence.
    • This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still...
    • According to Judd, in his polemical statement of aesthetic purpose "Specific Objects," written the year he created Untitled, the intransigent materiality of his nonallusive objects would provide a "credible" experience...
  2. The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.

Origin

From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās.

Forms

materialities

Antonyms

immateriality ethereality

Derived

nonmateriality sociomateriality