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US
/məˌtɪɹiˈæɫɪti/
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[ UK /mətˈiəɹɪˈælɪti/ ]
[ UK /mətˈiəɹɪˈælɪti/ ]
NOUN
- relevance requiring careful consideration
- the quality of being physical; consisting of matter
How To Use materiality In A Sentence
- Moreover, by invoking Nahuatl and speaking in tongues, he dramatizes the opaque materiality of language.
- This is the age of post-postmodernism -- an age of both inoperative language and linguistic reflexivity, of "meaning" as both immaterial material and material immateriality -- and Douglas Kearney pushes hard against all of this by rendering language as active, operative, and indeed a locus for Spectacle. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
- Materiality of an item may depend not only on its amount but also on its nature.
- Anthropological theories of virtualism, materiality/immateriality and digitisation. Culture Matters
- This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
- All three elements of perjury [1). belief in falsity, 2). under oath, affirmation or penalty of perjury, and 3). materiality] are matters for a jury to determine. The Volokh Conspiracy » Not the Best Way to Inspire Confidence
- If we seek transcendence without honouring immanence, we naturally take flight from materiality except when matter conforms to some notion of aesthetic appropriateness, which is nothing other than prevailing social convention.
- This research shows that the immateriality of mind is a deep illusion. The Yogurt Made Me Do It
- As far as symbolism is concerned, material embodiment refers in the first instance to the materiality of the artwork, not the reality of its represented content.
- But nothing approaches the demonstration by the materiality of the fact, and it is struck with this truth that the organisators of the Exhibition resolved to erect an improvisated town, including houses of all countries and all latitudes. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"