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IMMATERIALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter
Synonyms:
immateriality; incorporeality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("immateriality" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immateriality"):
impalpability; intangibility; intangibleness (the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch)
insubstantiality (lacking substance or reality)
abstractness (the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object)
unreality (the quality possessed by something that is unreal)
Antonym:
materiality (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)
Derivation:
immaterial (not consisting of matter)
immaterial (without material form or substance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("immateriality" is a kind of...):
irrelevance; irrelevancy (the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand)
Antonym:
materiality (relevance requiring careful consideration)
Derivation:
immaterial ((often followed by 'to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other)
immaterial (of no importance or relevance especially to a law case)
immaterial (not pertinent to the matter under consideration)
