materiality
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English
Etymology
From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās.[1]
Noun
materiality (countable and uncountable, plural materialities)
- The quality of being material; having a physical existence.
- 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29:
- 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 tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power. Something of the light that blazes invisible within the abysses of its normally opaque materiality breaks forth, with an increasing uproar.
- 2013, Robert Slifkin, Out of Time, page 19:
- 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 for viewers, free from any external connotations.
- (law) The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.
Antonyms
References
- ^ “materiality, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
