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Definition of Nonmaterial
1. Adjective. Not consisting of matter. "Ghosts and other immaterial entities"
Attributes: Corporality, Corporeality, Materiality, Physicalness
Also: Insubstantial, Unreal, Unsubstantial
Similar to: Intangible, Nonphysical
Derivative terms: Immateriality
Antonyms: Material
Definition of Nonmaterial
1. Adjective. Not material; apart from matter ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonmaterial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonmaterial
Literary usage of Nonmaterial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"... about which economic problems arise, we must make the term coextensive with
the term "economic goods"; and then we may speak of nonmaterial wealth. § 3. ..."
2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1911)
"... about which economic problems arise, we must make the term coextensive with
the term "economic goods "; and then we may speak of nonmaterial wealth. ..."
3. Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)
"In this, people were like other material things, which also had their bodies and
their nonmaterial components. The body was the physical substance and ..."
4. Methods of Teaching in High Schools by Samuel Chester Parker (1915)
"Goods, which may be material or nonmaterial, are characterized by the quality of
utility — the ... A > not concern himself *' (. nonmaterial J with these ..."
5. At the Hour of Death by Karlis Osis, Erlendur Haraldsson (1997)
"In this case we would be able to "see" nonmaterial persons rather than things.
This might be the reason why many more dying patients report seeing ..."
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