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Definition of Immateriality
1. Noun. Complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration.
Derivative terms: Immaterial, Immaterial, Immaterial
Antonyms: Materiality
2. Noun. The quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Impalpability, Intangibility, Intangibleness, Insubstantiality, Abstractness, Unreality
Derivative terms: Immaterial, Immaterial, Incorporeal
Antonyms: Materiality, Corporeality
Definition of Immateriality
1. n. The state or quality of being immaterial or incorporeal; as, the immateriality of the soul.
Definition of Immateriality
1. Noun. the state of being immaterial ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immateriality
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Immateriality
Literary usage of Immateriality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1871)
"Before speaking of materiality or immateriality, Collins said that Clarke ...
We cannot, then, conclude its immateriality from the mere fact of its being a ..."
2. The Works of Jonathan Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life and Character by Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards (1854)
"... immateriality OF THE HUMAN SOUL. The soul is an immaterial substance, and
therefore naturally immortal, ie not capable of destruction, by a dissolution ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"ral ; (Inn is, while he does not deny the immateriality of the soul, he endeavours
to show that the mind can form no certain conception of the immaterial ..."
4. A Treatise on Discovery of Evidence by Thomas Hare (1836)
"OF THE OBJECTION THAT THE DISCOVERY IS IMMATERIAL. SECTION 1. Of the Definition
of immateriality. SEVERAL classes of objections to answer are occasionally ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1779)
"... an tbt immateriality and Immortality of tbt Soul, ... he alleges, muft follow
from denying the immateriality of the foul of man ..."
6. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1801)
"On the immateriality of God. THE proofs of the immateriality of God here adduced
by Hartley are liable to fome not unfounded objections; particularly the ..."
7. The Law and Practice of Discovery in the Supreme Court of Justice: With an by Clarence John Peile (1883)
"It may be(l) immaterial as regards the action immateriality. 0? ... This third
species of immateriality will be discussed hereafter under a separate head, ..."
8. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"V.—Of the immateriality of the Soul. Having found such contradictions and
difficulties in every system concerning external objects, and in the idea of ..."
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