materiality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ma=te=ri=al=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

materiality, n. [Cf. F. matérialité.].

•  The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.  [1913 Webster]
•  Importance; as, the materiality of facts.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

materiality

accent, air, applicability, application, appositeness, atom, atomic particles, bearing, being, body, brute matter, building block, chemical element, component, concern, concernment, concreteness, connection, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, constituent, density, durability, earth, element, elementary particle, elementary unit, emphasis, ens, entity, esse, essence, excellence, existence, fire, firmness, fundamental particle, germaneness, high order, high rank, hyle, hypostasis, import, importance, interest, life, mark, mass, material, material world, matter, merit, molecule, moment, monad, natural world, nature, note, occurrence, palpability, paramountcy, pertinence, physical world, plenum, ponderability, precedence, preeminence, presence, primacy, priority, reality, reference, regard, relatedness, relevance, respect, self-importance, significance, solidity, soundness, stability, steadiness, stoutness, strength, stress, stuff, sturdiness, subsistence, substance, substantiality, substantialness, substratum, superiority, supremacy, tangibility, the four elements, toughness, unit of being, value, water, weight, worth

ROGET THESAURUS

materiality

Substantiality

N substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially.

Materiality

N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.